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Catalogue 2015 with Handbook

The Book Discussion Scheme is a member of the Federation of Workers Educational Associations in Aotearoa / Te Whetereihana o nga Kaimahi Akoranga o Aotearoa Contents

About Us Welcome...... (i) Handbook Highlights...... (ii)-(iv)

Book Catalogue Fiction (A-Z)...... 5-71 Non-fiction (A-Z)...... 72-104 Index by title...... 106-114 Index by author...... 115-122 Membership Costs...... 123

About Us We’re unique! The Book Discussion Scheme (BDS) is unique in New Zealand. We are the only nationwide organisation that specialises in book groups. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a 40-year track record.

What we offer We lend books and discussion notes to participating book groups. Groups make their book selections from this catalogue, which is also available as an on-line version on our website. Each month (or every two months on a half programme), we supply groups with one of their selected titles. We provide enough copies to enable members of a group to read the same book at the same time. Groups then meet to discuss the book they’ve just read. We also supply professionally produced discussion notes for each person, to facilitate group discussion and a greater understanding of the book.

Who uses BDS? We cater for people who: • are looking to join an existing BDS book group • are in a book group and want to borrow our resources • are wanting help to form a new book group. We have men-only, women-only and mixed groups registered with the scheme.

Membership programmes There are three BDS programmes that book groups can choose from: Full programme – 10 books (one book a month for 10 consecutive months) Half Programme – 5 books (one book every two months) Student Programme – 5 books (for high school/tertiary students; one book a month for the first half of the academic year)

Membership fees are as low as $60 per person for a full programme of 10 books.

For a table of fees and account details see the inside back cover of this Catalogue. Welcome... Thank you for your interest in the Book Discussion Scheme. If you are considering joining the scheme, we hope this booklet whets your reading appetite and answers many of the questions you may have about our membership programmes. If you have just joined the scheme or have been with us for a while, thank you. May you (continue to) share with us many happy years of enjoyable reading and discussion. We look forward to helping you in any way we can.

What’s in this Catalogue? This year’s Catalogue incorporates useful information that used to feature in the Handbook, as well as the list of book titles that are available for loan. Our new publication complements the information that you will find on our website www.bds.org.nz which we recommend you also read.

An on-line version of the BDS catalogue is at www.bds.org.nz/books/catalogue

Record your group’s BDS details for easy reference:

Your Group’s BDS Name:

Your group’s bank ID number: Our contact details: Book Discussion Scheme PO Box 7126, 8240

ph: 03 365-6210 fax: 03 365-6054 web: www.bds.org.nz email: [email protected]

facebook: www.bds.org.nz/bookdiscussionscheme forum: www.bds.org.nz/forum

Business hours: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday Closed Christmas/New Year period and statutory holidays After-hours book return slot at 440 Colombo St, Christchurch

BDS Handbook i Helpful Highlights Check the BDS website We recommend that you read the following in conjunction with the information on our website (www.bds.org.nz), especially the Members section. Convenors also have access to a dedicated area of the website. To view this, log in using the Login menu button on the home page of our website.

Choosing books to read We recommend that groups spend a bit of time and effort selecting the titles you want to read during your membership period. That way, you’re more likely to enjoy your reading programme. If you are on a Full programme: select 25 titles for your booklist. If you are on a Student or Half programme: select 15 titles for your booklist. Before your Convenor submits your booklist with the enrolment form (or selects the titles on-line*), take an overall look at the list. Is there enough diversity to keep the group interested? Have you included some lighter books or are they all ‘worthy’, ‘sad’, or ‘heavy going’?

Suggestions for compiling your booklist are: • Each member goes through the on-line or printed Catalogue and selects titles they would like to read. The titles with the most picks or ticks are selected; or • Each member gets to choose a selected number of books (eg, if there are 12 members in the group, each person chooses two titles and the Convenor could select the remaining three); or • Each member picks a nominated number of titles of books they would really like to read. Everyone’s choices are put into the pool and voted on by the group as a whole; or • Use your previous year’s list as the basis of your new list (retain all the titles you haven’t read). Members then add additional titles (such as books newly added to the scheme).

Need help choosing? BDS staff are more than happy to suggest titles to suit the taste of your group. Each year we also compile a ‘most popular’ list as voted by groups (check the Books section of our website). Ask for recommendations on our Facebook page or on-line Forum (access via our website). Check out the ‘What’s Hot’ and ‘What’s New’ in the Book section of our website, too.

Prioritising titles on your booklist Your booklist can be prioritised i.e. all or some of the titles can be put in specific order, to indicate the titles the group is more keen to read. Convenors can prioritise the booklist in the Convenor section* of the website or by notifying BDS.

What title will you get each month (or two months)? Your group receives a title from your booklist that we have sufficient copies of (at the time) for the number of people in your group; it is randomly picked unless you have prioritised some/all of your list. Prioritised books on your list are dispatched in order of preference, depending on the availability of sufficient copies. Having ‘spare’ titles on your booklist (more titles than you will actually receive during your membership period) ensures that something from our collection will be available for your group.

Changing your booklist Don’t forget that you can change your booklist at any time. Your booklist doesn’t have to be static! Your booklist can be altered on the Convenor section* of the website or by contacting BDS.

* This facility is available once a new group has enrolled for the first time & BDS has registered a login name. ii BDS Handbook Readers’ Network and new titles New titles are added to the scheme throughout the year and are simultaneously incorporated into our on-line Catalogue. They are publicised in newsletters and in ‘What’s New’ in the Books section of the website. New titles are chosen by a BDS sub-committee, after assessment and recommendation from our Readers’ Network (made up of volunteer reviewers). The selection criteria include the level of discussion that a book can generate and how well the genre is well represented in the scheme. Contact us if you wish to recommend a book for review (or to discuss donating a set of books in memoriam/to mark a special occasion).

Keeping track of books On the back of each book in the scheme is a sticker with a unique barcode. The barcodes work with our electronic book scanning system, so BDS knows which group has what books. Each “consignment note” (the printout that’s included in your book parcel) lists the barcodes of the books issued to your group. To keep track of who has what book, we suggest you write each person’s name beside the relevant barcode number on the consignment note.

Care of books Book groups are responsible for the care and security of books and booknotes while on loan from the BDS. To ensure longevity of our books so others can enjoy them, please keep books clean, dry and out of harm’s way. The Members section of the website has Courier & Postal Information (guidelines for returning books to BDS) and information about what to do if a book is lost or damaged.

Booknotes & the art of discussion Discussion notes (booknotes) accompany each book that’s loaned out. These professionally prepared notes are intended to increase your understanding and appreciation of the book, and to help groups generate discussion about it. They are the copyright of BDS or the book publisher. Booknotes provide a variety of information such as background, an analysis of aspects of the text, questions you can use for discussion, and additional resources. You can use the booknotes in whatever way suits your group: some groups follow the questions religiously; others use them as a framework for their discussion. It’s up to you! You can choose when to read the booknotes— beforehand, during, or after reading the book. If booknotes contain ‘spoilers’ (too much content that will spoil the surprise of the book), this is indicated.

Loan period Our scheme operates on the premise that groups meet on a regular day each month (or every two months for the half programme): for example, the second Wednesday of the month. This ensures books are circulated from group to group on a constant basis, to spread around the enjoyment! Books are due back to the BDS office within 7 days of the meeting when you discussed the book. This due date is printed on the “consignment note” (the printout that’s included in your book parcel). If your group shifts its meeting date, please tell BDS as soon as possible. In most circumstances we can extend the ‘due back’ date for returning books. Except for the optional ‘holiday read’ issued for the summer holidays, all books must be returned to the BDS office before Christmas. We recommence sending out books to groups in mid-January (for groups meeting in the 3rd and 4th weeks of the month) or February (for groups meeting in the 1st and 2nd weeks of the month.

On-line Forum Our new online Forum enables readers to connect with each other. It is especially useful for people who are looking for others with whom to form a BDS book group. Register for the Forum at www.bds.org.nz/forum

BDS Handbook iii Facebook Our facebook page is a more informal place to find book reviews, events, and what BDS staff and members are up to! Share photos, stories and book reviews on www.facebook.com/bookdiscussionscheme

Reviews and comments about BDS books We encourage feedback on books in the scheme. You can write reviews and comments at the bottom of the consignment note and/or on facebook. See the Members section of the website for an explanation of the importance of your feedback!

Membership period You can join BDS at any time during the year. ‘Calendar-year’ groups start in late Jan/mid Feb and have their final meeting in late Nov/early Dec. We send you a re-enrolment pack in August/September, for membership for the following year. ‘Non-calendar year’ groups start and finish anytime during the year. Your group can re-enrol immediately so that you have continuous membership (except for the break during the Christmas-summer holidays). For a fuller overview of the year, see the diagram and explanation in ‘How groups work’ in the Members section of the website. Happy reading!

Book Catalogue & Key

This booklet contains the book catalogue for 2015. If you are on a Full programme: select 25 titles for your booklist. If you are on a Student or Half programme: select 15 titles for your booklist. Groups receive one complimentary copy of this catalogue. Extra copies are available to buy from BDS or can be viewed as a pdf file on our website. You can also search the on-line catalogue in the Books section of the website.

Reference key for book symbols

M = NZ Interest

O = Larger Font

H = Explicit Content

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10 PM QUESTION, THE M O ACCESS ROAD M O De Goldi, Kate 251pp 2008 Gee, Maurice 204pp 2009 Frankie Parsons is 12, going on an old man: an Gee’s familiar fictional West town of Loomis apparently sensible, talented Year 8 with a drumbeat is the setting for this story about elderly siblings forced of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in to confront secrets from the past. Supported by their his head. Only Ma takes seriously his catalogue of sister Rowan and her husband Dickie Pinker, bachelor persistent anxieties; only Ma listens patiently to his 10 brothers Lionel and Rory Beach live in the old family pm queries. But of course it is Ma who is the cause of home in Access Road. When a malevolent character the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie from their childhood, Clyde Buckley, reappears, can never bring himself to ask. Winner Montana NZ the past and the present collide moving relentlessly Book Awards’ Reader’s Choice; NZ Post Children’s and towards a shocking conclusion. Young Adult’s Book Award. ACCORDING TO QUEENEY O 26A Bainbridge, Beryl 224pp 2001 Evans, Diana 230pp 2005 Beryl Bainbridge investigates the darker, melancholic Georgia and Bessie Hunter are identical twins, side to the character of Dr Samuel Johnson, the great daughters of an English father and a Nigerian mother, lexicographer. There are several narrators, including growing up in a suburb punctuated by a Queeney, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thrale, sojourn in Nigeria for their father’s work. It is there Johnson’s close friends. Includes excerpts from actual that the seeds of calamity are sown, the impact to letters and journal writings. Booker Shortlist, 2001. reverberate for the rest of their lives. Replete with eloquently drawn characters, this is a warm and ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, THE moving story that considers not only twinship and Twain, Mark 370pp 1884 the twists and turns of family life, but what one must do to survive the challenges and trauma of reaching One of the great American novels and more than a adulthood. Winner of the Orange Prize for New children’s book. Huckleberry Finn was brought up by Writers. a drunkard father, but things are looking better. That is, until his ne’er-do-well father kidnaps him. Huck escapes down the Mississippi river along with a runaway ABSOLUTION O slave Jim who fears being ‘sold down the river’. The Flanery, Patrick 385pp 2012 book covers loyalty, individuality and values. When Sam Leroux is commissioned to write Clare Wald’s biography, Clare is placing not only her life AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE under the microscope but that of the apartheid era Wharton, Edith 229pp 1920 in South Africa. But there is a price to be paid for confronting one’s past: revealing truths. When no-one Set in New York in the 1870s in a society where the (including Sam) is who they seem, truth is an elusive constricting social code puts individual lives under prospect. Beautifully crafted, this is an intriguing and great pressure. It is also a story about love. Pulitzer unsettling story examining the personal and societal Prize for Literature, 1921. concepts of guilt, truth and reconciliation. ’S SHORT STORIES, THE BEST OF ABSOLUTIST, THE Wendt, Albert 390pp 1999 M Boyne, John 309pp 2011 “For Wendt, the past is a pulsating present” (NZ Subject to the horrors of the Great War, Will Bancroft Listener, 1999). Twenty-nine selected short stories declares himself an ‘absolutist’, a conscientious from one of the Pacific’s major writers with themes of objector who will do nothing for the war effort, a Samoan family and social histories. declaration with an inevitable outcome. Narrated by his gay friend Tristan Sadler, this is a gruelling story ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND of the battlefield, two young men on the cusp of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS adulthood and the condemnation they face in a society Carroll, Lewis 253pp 1865 requiring conformity from its young soldiers. A tragic The English children’s classic. A fantasy tale of the and tense story of courage, friendship and loyalty child, Alice, who meets famous characters, such as the played out in the trenches of Northern . White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, and many others.

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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT AMERICANAH Remarque, Eric Maria 192pp 1919 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 477pp 2013 Paul Bäumer and his friends enlist in Escaping the military dictatorship of Nigeria, Ifemelu the German army of World War I. They and Obinze aspire, as many of their generation did, to join with idealistic fervour, but as the a life in the West. For Obinze it is an illegal existence war draws on they learn the agonies in London while for Ifemelu , Princeton beckons. and futility of war. The author lost his But neither place is the promised land and each German citizenship as a result of this must grapple with the challenges of race and status work. before they return home. Set in Nigeria, Britain and America, this is a thought-provoking novel boasting well-rounded characters, authentic settings, and an “A marvellous book. It should be mandatory reading for all students.” unashamed focus on the experience of being black. Nelson 003 “This is a very well written book in a style that’s both “A must-read classic. Everyone was very moved by this great novel even if it was harrowing.” flowing and evocative. Place is depicted clearly, but the characterisation is the real strength of the book.” Hikurangi 001 “This book is an excellent read and an educational one in the best sense of the word.” ALL THAT I AM Funder, Anna 384pp 2011 “Extremely thought-provoking and what I’d describe as a true reader’s book.” The cost for those who opposed Hitler’s rise to power in Germany was high: death, imprisonment or exile. BDS Reviewers This is the story of a group of dissidents facing these possibilities but continuing to resist and attempting to tell the world what was happening. Alternating between narrators, Ruth in 21st Century AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED Sydney and Ernst from 1939 New York, this compelling Hosseini, Khaled 402pp 2013 fictionalised account of actual events brings to our attention the disturbing history of a country pursuing A walk across the desert to Kabul nationalism at all costs and the price individuals paid will be the last steps siblings as the world looked the other way. Abdullah and Pari take in their life together. Beyond Afghanistan ALVA & IRVA looms France and USA but there Carey, Edward 214pp 2004 is little choice in their fate beyond that dictated by poverty and Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters who live in circumstance. From the 1950s to the the imaginary city of Entralla. Alva, the novel’s narrator, present day, this is a complex saga is an explorer who longs to travel. Irva is a recluse. Yet, from a consummate storyteller, with the twins cannot survive without one another. Together, Afghanistan at its centre, of bonds that stretch but do they build a model of the city on a scale that might not break, and the sacrifices that we are called upon accommodate the desires of both sisters, and comes to to make, with or without our consent. serve Entralla in a way its creators never imagined. “Enchanting writing as always - the author has a AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, THE gift with descriptive narrative and making you Chabon, Michael 639pp 2000 feel you are there with the characters.” Following his escape from 1939 Prague, a young Jewish artist, Joe Kavalier, joins forces with his New “Beautiful writing, a real storyteller in action.” York cousin, Sammy Clay. They become the creative “A beautifully written book where the reader is drawn forces behind a Nazi-busting, comic book superhero into the different lives of Afghani descendants. Each who promotes good over evil. A witty look at how art chapter relates to a different character.” can offer a gesture of defiance and hope. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2001. BDS Reviewers

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ANIL’S GHOST ARTHUR & GEORGE Ondaatje, Michael 311pp 2000 Barnes, Julian 505pp 2005 Forensic anthropologist, Anil Tissera, returns to Sri In 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle took on the case of Lanka as a representative of an international human George Edalji, a reserved young lawyer, half Scottish rights organisation to assist in an investigation into and half Indian, who was wrongly accused of suspected mass political murders throughout the 1980s mutilating animals. These two men, from very different and 1990s. With almost hallucinatory imagery and backgrounds, are brought together by a sequence of the gradual interweaving of characters’ pasts, Ondaatje events that made sensational headlines at the time leads his readers into a riveting mystery. as “The Great Wyrley Outrages”. It is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, ANIMAL FARM identity, nationality, and race. Orwell, George 118pp 1945 AS I LAY DYING The animals on a farm take over and administer the Faulkner, William 242pp 1930 farm for themselves. A satire about dictatorship. The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by ANNA KARENINA members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Tolstoy, Leo 853pp 1877 Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the A novel offering insight into the lives of upper-class family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep before the Revolution. This is the story of the South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary tragic fate of Anna who is locked in a dull marriage power. US classic. and falls in love with a young officer.

AS THE EARTH TURNS SILVER M O APPOINTMENT, THE Wong, Alison 278pp 2009 Müller, Herta 214pp 1997 From the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, from Ceausescu’s Romania is a repressed society ruled by Kwantung, China to and Dunedin and fear. An unnamed citizen is sitting on a tram on her the battlefields of the Western Front – a story of two way to be interrogated by its secret police. During families. Yung faces a new land that does not welcome this 90 minute ride she ponders her life, past and the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her present unravelling a bleak picture of deprivation and children and find her place in the world. In a climate fear. Inspired by the author’s own experiences, this of hostility towards the foreign newcomers, Katherine important story is a chilling reminder of existence in a and Yung embark on a poignant and far-reaching love totalitarian state. Translated from German. The author affair. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009.

ASK THE POSTS OF THE HOUSE M ART OF HEARING HEARTBEATS, THE O Ihimaera, Witi 307pp 2007 Sendker, Jan-Philipp 325pp 2002 Five novella-length stories are included in this In search of her father who collection. The stories cover a wide range of intriguing disappeared four years earlier, narratives — myth, historical fiction, contemporary American lawyer Julia Win travels to comedy, drama, and science fiction. Passionate, Burma. There in a remote village the humorous and sometimes provocative writing. mystery of her father’s life is slowly unravelled. From upscale New York ATONEMENT to rural Burma, this is a poignant tale McEwan, Ian 372pp 2001 of tender romance, personal sacrifice and the stark contrast between Briony Tallis, a precocious 13 year-old, witnesses a East and West. Poetic in style, mystical in nature. quarrel between her older sister and Robbie, the son Translated from German. of her family’s cleaning woman. She then believes the shadowy figure who assaults her cousin Lola late that night is Robbie. Her assumption brings disaster, not simply to the two young people discovering themselves to be lovers, but to everyone else in the well-intentioned, prosperous family.

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AUTOGRAPH MAN, THE writers, which they share with the daughter of a tailor, Smith, Zadie 419pp 2002 transforms their lives. Sparely written with humorous moments. Half-Chinese, half-Jewish autograph trader, Alex-Li Tandem, is on a quest to track down the reclusive ageing actress, Kitty Alexander, whose extremely rare BEAUTY OF HUMANITY MOVEMENT, THE O signatures are the envy of collectors everywhere. Gibb, Camilla 294pp 2010 However, Alex’s journey is more spiritual than Taken to the USA as a child, Maggie Ly is returning to commercial, and shaped by the Kabbalistic guidance her Vietnamese roots, both in her capacity as a curator of a black Jewish friend. and as a daughter seeking to discover what happened to her father, a dissident artist who disappeared at the AUSTERLITZ O time of the fall of Saigon. Back in Hanoi, Maggie is Sebald, WG 415pp 2001 aided in her quest by Old Man Hu’ng a pho (soup) maker and Tu, a young tourist guide. Gently paced Over a period of 30 years, architectural historian and with an intriguing plot, this is a vividly exotic story Jacques Austerlitz, tells the story of his life to that thoughtfully captures both past and contemporary an anonymous narrator. Transported out of Vietnam. Czechoslovakia via Kindertransport on the eve of World War II, he was adopted by Welsh Calvinists who destroyed all traces of his identity. Sebald combines BEE SEASON fiction, memoir, travelogue and philosophy to create Goldberg, Myla 275pp 2001 a very visual insight into the role of memory and Eliza Naumann is an unremarkable nine-year-old in a remembering. Translated from German. National very remarkable family until she skyrockets through all Book Critic’s Circle Award for Fiction, 2001; the Berlin the local spelling bees to the national championships. Literature Prize; Literature Nord Prize, 2001. Her father, Saul, takes this as a sign that she is destined for greatness. Bee Season is a portrait of a family BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN UPS obsessed with the divine. Blends Jewish mysticism and Tyler, Anne 274pp 2001 the dynamics of an unconventional family to come to a startling conclusion. A disastrous family picnic is the catalyst for Rebecca Davitch, 53-year-old widow and matriarch of an extended family, to question her life and who she has BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP become. She embarks on a quixotic interior journey Watson, SJ 368pp 2011 with both funny and moving results. Every morning Christine Lucas wakes without memories. Her past, her present, the people she loves BALTHASAR’S ODYSSEY – all are erased every night when she goes to sleep. Maalouf, Amin 391pp 2002 Each day she must try to piece her life together. Each day the questions come. Who can she trust when she At a time when doomsday is believed to be imminent, can’t remember yesterday? How can she love without Genoese Levantine merchant, Balthasar Embriaco, is memory? And why is she so frightened? thrown by chance into a quest to find a mysterious book which, according to legend, contains the most secret name of God. He sets out on a journey from BEGINNER’S GOODBYE, THE O Constantinople, through the Mediterranean to London Tyler, Anne 198pp 2012 shortly before the Great Fire. His adventures and the Aaron Woolcott spends his days writing ‘Beginners people he befriends on his travels make an entertaining Guides’ for his family’s publishing business. But when read. his wife Dorothy is killed in an accident, he discovers there is no such guide to handle his loss, especially BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS when Dorothy begins to reappear. Gentle humour, Sijie, Dai 172pp 2001 O beautifully drawn characters and the familiar Anne Tyler landscape of the ordinary transformed, combine Two Chinese youths are banished to the countryside to create a whimsical story that considers our capacity during the Cultural Revolution for re-education by to weather the journey through grief. the peasants. To combat boredom, bad food and unsavoury work, they tell stories. The discovery of a hidden cache of novels written by great 19th-century

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BEHAVIOUR OF MOTHS, THE BELOVED Adams, Poppy 305pp 2008 Morrison, Toni 275pp 1987 Dorset, a sprawling Victorian folly, and a family Exuberant, but painful writing of an African-American peppered with eccentric characters; this is the story writer about ex-slaves. The effects of slavery continue of sisters Ginny and Vivian reunited after more even to this day. than 40 years. Against the backdrop of the family obsession with lepidopterology (the study of moths and BIG BROTHER butterflies), their past and present behaviour is under Shriver, Lionel 373pp 2013 the microscope. Revealed in this gripping story are the tangled truths and distortions of a dysfunctional and Somewhere along the way Pandora unconventional family. has lost sight of her brother Edison. And now here he is – very much BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM O her bigger brother weighing in at Atkinson, Kate 382pp 1995 over 180kgs, a larger than life house guest. At that weight it’s not only Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and the seams of his clothing that are born while her father, George, was in Doncaster, telling stretched to the limit. However, the a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he pressing question is, can Pandora wasn’t married. A witty account of Ruby’s family, and save Edison before it’s too late? The combination the memorable events of her own life. of intelligent and thoughtful characters with an exploration of the West’s complex relationship with BEL CANTO food produces both challenging and satisfying fare. Patchett, Ann 318pp 2001 Built around the tension of a political hostage situation in an unnamed South American country, the story “Shriver’s characters are intelligent and thoughtful - focuses on an eclectic mix of characters thrown consequently the reader is constantly challenged and made to think too.” together in unusual circumstances, and how time is suspended for them. One of the captives, an opera “I thought this book was excellent. Really interesting singer, enraptures them all with her daily singing and well written.” practice. Winner, Orange Prize, 2002. “There is nothing superficial or trite about Shriver’s writing!” “Really well developed ideas/theories and very BELIEVE ME credible characters.” Killham, Nina 291pp 2009 BDS Reviewers The world seen through the eyes of teenager Nic Delano, is full of questions, especially the biggest one of all – what is the meaning of life? Nic’s search BILLIE’S KISS M O for something to believe in, brings him into conflict Knox, Elizabeth 319pp 2002 with his astrophysicist and atheist mother Lucy. As In 1903, the “Gustav Edda”, bound for the island of Nic is drawn to a group of devout Christians, tragedy Kissock and Skilling off the coast of Scotland, suffers strikes, causing Nic and Lucy to embark on a journey a violent explosion. Young Billie Paxton survives after confronting and exploring faith and love. A powerful she jumps off the ship, but she comes under suspicion and moving read, whatever your age. of a fellow-passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and Lord Hallowhulme, the colonist owner of the island. BELL JAR, THE Plath, Sylvia 250pp 1963 Faulks, Sebastian 407pp 1994 The Bell Jar is Plath’s only novel. The world in which For young Englishman Stephen Wrayson, it is in the events of the novel takes place, is a world bounded France where he will experience love and war, the by the Cold War on one side and the sexual war on best and worst of human experience. Spanning three the other. The book is not political or historical in generations and moving between and France, any narrow sense, but in looking at the madness of this powerful novel of the Great War balances a the world and the world of madness, it forces us to poignant love story with the claustrophobic nightmare consider the great question posed by all truly realistic of trench warfare and the tunnels beneath. fiction: what is reality and how can it be confronted?

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BIRTH HOUSE, THE dysfunction, and dimly understood political upheaval. McKay, Ami 368pp 2006 Mostly though, Jason Taylor struggles with his stammer For the women of Scots Bay, Novia Scotia, the village and school bullies. midwife was a fellow traveller and companion in their unrelentingly hard lives. Apprenticed to the midwife, BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP, THE Dora Rare enters her vocation in the tumultuous World Tóibín, Colm 273pp 1999 War 1 era as the medical profession turns its sights on Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen’s adored, younger revolutionising childbirth. Caught between traditional brother is dying and the family find themselves practices and medical science, Dora champions the gathered in the grandmother’s house, together with two rights of the women in her care. A fascinating and of Declan’s friends. A story of an estranged family, passionate portrayal of the lives of women struggling painfully starting to communicate again. Told in a for control of their circumstances. quiet and non-judgemental way.

BLACK GIRL WHITE GIRL BLIND ASSASSIN, THE Oates, Joyce Carol 272pp 2006 Atwood, Margaret 637pp 2001 Narrator, Genna Meade, meditates on the long-ago, “Ten days after the war,” says Iris Chase, “my sister, terrible death of nineteen-year-old Minette Swift. Laura, drove a car off a bridge.” Iris pens a letter of the On entering college in the mid-1970s, liberal and Chase family saga, but Laura’s posthumously published well-meaning Genna looks forward to rooming with novel, The Blind Assassin, interrupts as a parable devoutly religious African-American scholarship on reality. Atwood deftly moves the reader through student, Minette. But the girls have little in common. several narratives. Winner Booker Prize, 2001. As Genna reconstructs the months, weeks, and hours leading up to Minette’s tragic death, she is also BLINDSIGHT M O forced to confront her own identity within the social Gee, Maurice 192pp 2005 framework of that time. Narrated by Alice as an old woman looking back over BLACK PRINCE, THE the mistakes and tragedy of her family history. At the Murdoch, Iris 416pp 1973 heart of the story, lies the relationship between Alice and her brother, Gordon, and the mystery behind their This is a meditation on art, love, and the power estrangement. For more than thirty years, they do not of human relationships. UK novel, exploring the meet. Then, a young man appears at Alice’s door, language/silence theme. claiming a relationship she never knew she had.

BLACK RAIN BLUE, THE M O Ibuse, Masui 300pp 1969 McCallum, Mary 282pp 2007 It’s just after the Hiroshima bombing. Yusuko isn’t An island in Tory Channel is the backdrop for this story of married yet and her chances of finding a suitable a whaling family at the beginning of World War Two. The husband are dealt a blow when people begin to juxtaposition of domestic detail and the brutal whaling believe that she is suffering from radiation sickness trade reflects the very different roles men and women after being struck by the poisonous black rain of the must confirm to when living in this isolated community. bombing. Her uncle decides to make his diary public Subtle and careful handling of the interwoven so people know what the family went through. Black relationship themes gives this story a timeless quality. Rain alternates between diary excerpts and the novel. The book won Japan’s highest literary award. BONE PEOPLE, THE M Hulme, Keri 445pp 1984 BLACK SWAN GREEN Mitchell, David 371pp 2006 A provocative and poetic novel set in a remote beach community. Hulme casts her magic on A series of stories provides a monthly snapshot of three fiercely unique characters who remind us that Jason Taylor’s life in small-town England. The parallel we, like them, are “nothing more than people”. Bound universe inhabited by a thirteen-year-old English boy in Maori mythology and Christian symbolism. Booker in 1982 is a world of superstition, misinformation, Prize Winner, 1985. obsession with social status, the mystery of girls, popular songs, school, his family’s increasing

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BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS, THE Tan, Amy 339pp 2001 Amirrezvani, Anita 457pp 2007 Ruth Young knows very little of her mother’s past, until A young teenage girl narrates this story of life in 17th- some papers written in Chinese calligraphy, fall into century Iran and the difficulties she faces after her her hands. We are taken back to LuLing’s birthplace: father’s death. With no means of support, she and the remote, mountainous region in China where her mother become servants in their relatives’ home. Peking Man was discovered in the 1920s. Tan uses the There, despite her gender, the young woman learns conflicts of mothers, daughters and sisters to explore the art of carpet design but dowryless, she is pressured the dynamic that exists between first-generation into a sigheh, or temporary marriage, in which a Americans and their immigrant elders. woman offers sexual favours in return for money. A haunting story of a young woman making a place for BOOK BOOK M herself in a society indifferent to her plight. Farrell, Fiona 367pp 2004

“Everyone loved this book. One of the favourites Kate filters the world through her reading and sets off of the year. Very well written and offers great from her Otago home on a challenging OE. Books insights into the Iranian culture.” have always shaped her life and made sense of her world. Through a mix of memoir and fiction, Farrell Auckland 272 writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, “Fascinating read.” from TS Eliot to Aphra Behn. Invercargill 001 “What a wonderful read! We enjoyed the lighter-style.” BOOK THIEF, THE Zusak, Markus 584pp 2005 Christchurch 099 Death serves as the narrator for this unusual novel about the power of words to both destroy and comfort. Set in Munich during World War II, ten-year-old Liesel Meminger learns to read and is transformed into the BLUE ASYLUM “book thief”. While people in her neighbourhood Hepinstall, Kathy 271pp 2012 starve, Liesel hungers after books. When her family decides to hide a Jewish man, she shares her stolen Taking exception to her husband’s books with her neighbours during bombing raids, as cruel and inhumane treatment of well as with the man hidden in her basement. his slaves results in Iris Dunleavy’s banishment to a Florida island BORDER CROSSING O following a judge’s verdict that she Barker, Pat 281pp 2001 is insane. For all of the lush beauty that surrounds Sanibel Asylum it While trying to cope with marital difficulties, child is most definitely not paradise and psychologist, Tom Seymour, is dramatically confronted Iris intends to escape, taking with with a patient from the past: Danny Miller, convicted her Ambrose Weller, a confederate soldier haunted of murder at age ten. Barker sets up a tantalising series by his experience of the American Civil War. From of questions, as personal and professional boundaries its sublime setting to its beguiling characters, this is become blurred. Atmospheric thriller set in Newcastle. a fascinating story encompassing a wide breadth of human experience. BORDER STREET Leal, Suzanne 314pp 2006 “Beautifully written. A book where you stop and When Kate and Cameron rent a house on Border read the paragraph again just to enjoy the writing.” Street, Kate forges a bond with Frank, their elderly “It was finished too soon. It ticked all the boxes for me.” Czech-Australian landlord who lives with his wife, “A succinct portrayal of slavery and the horrors Vera, next door. The more time Kate spends with of the Civil War.” Frank, the more she wants to find out about his earlier life. As Frank gradually opens up to Kate, she is “The writing is flowing and easy to read, compelled to understand a dark European history that with evocative imagery.” she’d never known or cared about — and is forever BDS Reviewers changed by the encounter.

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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Capote, Truman 157pp 1958 BURIAL RITES O Kent, Hannah 335pp 2013 In this collection of four short stories, Capote In the harsh and unforgiving explores the themes of loneliness, social alienation landscape of Iceland, Agnes and friendship through the marriage of a prostitute, Magnusdottir faces a harsh and the incarceration of a long serving prisoner and an unforgiving future: In 1829 she is innocent friendship that is diminished by time. In condemned to death for murder. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the longest of the stories, a writer Awaiting her execution day in the reminisces about the life and times of the dazzling care of the District Officer and Holly Golightly, a liberal playgirl in 1940s New York. his family and with the spiritual counsel of a young assistant priest, BREAKING OF EGGS, THE Agnes’ story of love and betrayal is revealed. Based Powell, Jim 342pp 2010 on actual events, this is a gripping suspenseful novel Feliks Zhukovski, born in Poland, resident of , is a capturing the way of life in an unfamiliar society, man of order and routine and leftist sympathies. His well supported by material from the trial itself and life has centred around publishing a travel guide to the delivered in a beautifully crafted story. eastern bloc. When the Iron Curtain is swept aside, so too are the assumptions and convictions underpinning “An excellent book that’s so gripping. I finished it in a day, his life. This is a story of Europe, wartime and I did not want to go to bed not knowing the full story!” aftermath, and what happens when you are forced to question what you have always believed. Thoughtful in “Fascinating insight into life in Iceland in the 1820s.” content, light-hearted in style. “Such suspense!” “The fact that it was based on true events made BRICK LANE this so interesting. Extremely well written.” Ali, Monica 492pp 2003 BDS Reviewers Growing up in a Bengali village, Nazneen is sent to England to marry the pompous, middle-aged Chanu and live on a London council estate. Over BY THE SEA time, Nazneen and Chanu build a fragile, but Gurnah, Abdulrazak 245pp 2001 companionable, peace together until Karim, a young When two men meet in a small English seaside Islamic activist, breaks through that peace. town, there begins the unravelling of a story started long ago in Zanzibar. One is an elderly shopkeeper BRIXTON BEACH who apparently speaks no English. The other is Latif Tearne, Roma 409pp 2009 Mahmud, a lecturer at London University. Their stories To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, the Foneska are complex and intertwined, and the resulting tale one family migrate to England. Alice, daughter of a Tamil of love and betrayal. father and a Singhalese mother, faces the challenges of growing up and aspiring to be an artist in a foreign CAL culture. Vividly drawn characters expose the reader to MacLaverty, Bernard 153pp 1983 the impact of cultural estrangement and dislocation, A tender and realistic novel about a young man from and the consequences of violence. This story offers a Catholic family in a Protestant area in Northern no false consolation for the difficulties of cultural Ireland. reconciliation but instead, the possibility of the redemptive power of art. CALEB’S CROSSING O Brooks, Geraldine 318pp 2011 BULIBASHA M Ihimaera, Witi 291pp 1994 Bethia and Caleb’s friendship bridges a cultural divide: Bethia is the daughter of a Puritan minister and Caleb The story of two Maori families who clash constantly is the son of a Wampanoag chieftain. Set in the 1660s — in sport, in cultural contests, and finally in the in Martha’s Vineyard, this is the story of their friendship Golden Fleece Shearing Contest. A comedy of family that pushes the boundaries and expectations of their dislocation and cultural adaptation. respective cultures resulting in Caleb becoming the

12 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z first native American to graduate from Harvard College. Inspired by real events, this remarkable story of Caleb’s CASE HISTORIES O achievement casts light on the beliefs, aspirations and Atkinson, Kate 410pp 2004 prejudices of an evolving society. Private detective Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-husband and weekend dad, takes on three seemingly unrelated CANNERY ROW cases: a toddler missing for 34 years; a young woman Steinbeck, John 148pp 1945 brutally killed while temping at her father’s law Cannery Row is in many senses a forgotten Steinbeck firm, and an over-wrought mother driven to commit novel due to its less than ambitious credentials; it is, murder. Jackson’s reluctant persistence heats up these however, one of his finest. The novel is based in the cold cases, leading him to reassess his own painful eponymous Cannery Row, and the story is essentially history, and offer him a chance at happiness and a light-hearted comedy about a community of social some measure of reconciliation with the past. drop-outs who, through their cunning and scant regard for the law, live a simple and contented life. “Thoroughly enjoyed by all - we liked her humour.” Coromandel 001 CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN “Everyone loved this book. We’ll read more of her books.” De Bernières, Louis 436pp 1994 Havelock 005 Humorous novel about a young officer in command of the Italian garrison who is posted to a Greek “A great discussion. Some thought there were too many characters but others enjoyed the island during World War II. Winner of the 1995 overlapping of the stories.” Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Geraldine 002 CAPTIVE WIFE, THE M CASE OF THE DEADLY BUTTER CHICKEN, THE Kidman, Fiona 367pp 2005 O Hall, Tarquin 360pp 2012 This fictionalised account is based on the true story of Meet Vish Puri the generously proportioned Indian Betty Guard and her two children who, returning from private detective who is on the case again, locating Sydney to the whaling station on Arapawa Island in the a moustache thief, investigating cricket match fixing early 1830s, were captured by Ngati Ruanui and held with its deadly butter chicken connection, and more for ransom. After her violent rescue, and reunification somberly, shedding light on the tense events that with her husband, Betty’s life among the tribe is held occurred at the time of Partition. Involving a cheerful under scrutiny. Reflects the social and sexual politics cast of characters, this light-hearted whodunnit is of early New Zealand. Runner-up Montana NZ Book perfectly balanced by its exploration of historical and Awards Deutz Medal, 2006. contemporary issues faced by the Indian sub-continent. Good food and high jinks abound. CARELESS O Robertson, Deborah 293pp 2006 CATCHER IN THE RYE, THE A story of grief and the slow healing of four people Salinger, JD 220pp 1951 whose lives become interwoven. Eight year old Pearl This is the story of Holden Caulfield, a 16 year old drop- is the only survivor of a playground shooting where out who has been expelled from his fourth school. The one of the seven victims is her young brother. Lily book is synonymous with rebellion, teenage confusion, is Pearl’s mother and they both struggle to come to sexuality and feelings of alienation. In 1961-1982 this terms with the tragedy. Sonia is a grieving widow book was the most censored book in USA schools. of a furniture designer; she wants to assemble a retrospective collection of her husband’s work. Adam is an avant-garde sculptor who rents outs Sonia’s now CAVE, THE Saramago, José 294pp 2003 vacant studio — he experiences some notoriety when he displays a cast of a young girl who died of a heroin An allegorical tale of Cipriano Algor, an old man overdose. All their lives become entangled in ways who makes a living selling hand-made pottery to the that could not have been foreseen. metropolis known as ‘The Centre’. Suddenly, his humble pottery is no longer wanted and he is forced to retire. When his family moves into The Centre, he comes across a disturbing secret. Author awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Open Books, Open Minds 13 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z

CELLIST OF SARAJEVO, THE O CITY OF TRANQUIL LIGHT, THE Galloway, Steven 227pp 2009 Caldwell, Bo 287pp 2010 Sarajevo 1992 - a bomb goes off in the street, Kuang P’ing Ch’ing, City of Tranquil interrupting a cellist who is practising Albinoni’s Light, becomes the adopted home Adagio. To honour the 22 people who die, he returns of Mennonite missionaries Will and to the street each day for the next 22 days to play the Katherine Kieh. Set in the early Adagio. This event is the backdrop to the experience 20th Century, this is the story of of the three narrators struggling to survive daily life their mission to Northern China; in the besieged city. A sombre and powerful novel their love and commitment to one depicting the horror and futility of war tempered by the another and the people they serve, unquenchable human spirit. and the faith that sustains them. Told in alternating voices, this is a captivating read where hardships and CHOSEN, THE challenges abound, played out against the backdrop Potok, Chaim 280pp 1967 of a country at war with itself. Based on the lives of An insight into a Jewish world. This novel focuses the author’s grandparents. on the friendship between two 15 year-old boys in America between 1944-1950. It is set against the “All members enjoyed this book, it provided a very good backdrop of World War II, the death of President discussion. We’d have no hesitation in recommending it.” Roosevelt and the creation of the state of Israel. Tauranga 028 “Amazed and delighted by the gentle quality of CIDER HOUSE RULES, THE the writing. Enjoyed by all.” Irving, John 731pp 1985 Auckland 027 Entertaining novel that may, nevertheless, help us to “This book was extremely well received. Very high see the integrity on both sides of the abortion issue. marks from everyone. An engaging read whether Content may disturb. you have a faith or not.” Christchurch 071 CITY OF THE MIND O Lively, Penelope 220pp 1991 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A Matthew Holland shares in the upbringing of his eight- Burgess, Anthony 144pp 1962 year-old daughter. As an architect, his work takes him This fantasy of urban violence raises questions about over the ever-changing cityscape of London with all society’s right to tamper with the individual. UK. the diversity and evidence of past history — the city’s and his own. But Matthew is also busy forging new COLD MOUNTAIN beginnings: for London’s Docklands, and for himself. Frazier, Charles 436pp 1997

CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL A story of two parallel journeys in the waning months Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 223pp 1900 of the American Civil War. Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier, leaves his hospital bed and French novel thought to be “somewhat salacious”, embarks on a dangerous trek home to Cold Mountain, recounting the adventures and fantasies of a young girl and the woman he loves. National Book Award (US), in her final year of secondary school. 1997.

CLEANER, THE M OH COLOR OF LIGHTNING, THE Cleave, Paul 427pp 2006 Jiles, Paulette 349pp 2009 Joe is in control of everything in his simple life, Britt Johnson, a freed negro slave, and his family, including both his day job at the police department travel west to settle in the plains of post-Civil War and his “night work”. He is not bothered by news Northern Texas. It is Indian territory: a place of violent reports of the Christchurch Carver, who, they say, has confrontation between settlers and Indians. Based on murdered seven women; for Joe knows the Carver only oral histories, this extensively researched story offers killed six. Joe knows that for a fact, and he is going to compelling insights into the Native American culture find the copy-cat killer. He is going to punish him for and the experiences of the settlers, illuminating a tragic the one murder, then frame him for the other six. episode in American history.

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COLOR PURPLE, THE CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI, THE Walker, Alice 294pp 1982 Greer, Andrew Sean 267pp 2004 Painful and moving US novel set in Black America, and Born to wealthy San Franciscans in 1871, Max Tivoli is told to God by an African-American girl. Winner, 1983 declared a nisse, Danish for gnome — a time-altered Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. creature that ages backwards. When he meets and falls in love with Alice at the age of 17, he resembles a COLOUR, THE M middle-aged man. But when Max reaches age 35, with Tremain, Rose 366pp 2003 an appearance to match, he has his second chance at love. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco at the Set against the background of the mid-19th century turn of the 20th century. gold rush, English immigrants and newlyweds, Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, seek a more prosperous life CONSTANT GARDENER, THE in New Zealand. Together with Joseph’s widowed Le Carré, John 570pp 2001 mother, they attempt to build a farm. When Joseph discovers gold in the local creek, he heads to the gold Justin Quayle is a British diplomat and amateur fields, escaping his failing farm and eroding marriage. gardener, based in Nairobi, and who undertakes a personal odyssey in pursuit of his wife’s murderers. CONDITION, THE The investigation leads him into a murky web of Haigh, Jennifer 382pp 2008 exploitation involving Kenyan greed, and a major international pharmaceutical company eager to When Gwen McKotch is 13 she is identified as having promote a “wonder cure”. Turner’s Syndrome, a condition that will prevent her from maturing normally. Her diagnosis is a catalyst for the unravelling of her family; parents Frank CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, A and Paulette, and brothers Billy and Scott. Set in Marra, Anthony 403pp 2013 contemporary America and told over a 20 year period, this is an exploration of the human condition: the story When Havaa’s father is arrested of a family tested but ultimately finding peace. by Russian soldiers, Akhmed, a neighbour and friend, unexpectedly determines that CONDITIONS OF FAITH the little girl will be safest in the Miller, Alex 406pp 2001 care of a locally based Russian Inspired by his mother’s journal writings, this prize- doctor. In return, he will assist winning author created the story of Emily Stanton, a Sonja Rabina in her attempts to young Australian woman who leaves academic life keep an abandoned Chechen in 1920s Melbourne to become the wife of a Scottish hospital functioning. Set over a five day period in Paris-based engineer. But conventional marriage 2004 and with flashbacks to preceding events, this awakens her desire to look beyond the roles seen as complex story is a microcosm of the recent history appropriate for women of her time. of Chechnya in all its tragedy and violence. For all that it graphically explores the themes of trust CONDUCTOR, THE M and betrayal and the fine line between victim and Quigley, Sarah 300pp 2011 perpetrator, it is surprisingly a novel of hope. Featuring Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony at its heart, this story sets the reader firmly in the World “Very gripping story using a great writing style.” War Two siege of Leningrad. Battling against the severe conditions, the newly composed symphony “This is a grim read but also an uplifting read.” is performed by an ailing and desperate orchestra. “I liked the complex characterisations and the Bringing to life composer Dimitri Shostakovich and conductor Karl Eliasberg, this fictional version of unfolding of their back stories which explained why historical events is a triumphant testimony to the power they made their choices.” and importance of creativity when all else is lost. “Beautifully written but can be hard-going in [One CD of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony will places because of the subject matter.” accompany each book-set.] BDS Reviewers

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CORONER’S LUNCH, THE COUSINS M Cotterill, Colin 287pp 2004 Grace, Patricia 256pp 1992 Confronted by the poisoning of an important official’s The story of three girls once thrown together, and as wife and the sudden appearance of three bodies that women grown apart. Moving from the country to the may create an international incident between Laos and protests of the cities. A novel of tradition and change. Vietnam, the crafty and charming 72-year-old state coroner, Dr Siri Paiboun, stays dead calm. Set in Laos COWBOY DOG, THE M O a year after the 1975 Communist takeover, Dr Paiboun Cox, Nigel 207pp 2006 gleans clues from minute examinations of the bodies, while circumnavigating bureaucratic red tape. At his When Chester Farlowe’s father is killed, Chester is age, he reasons, what can they do to him? He unravels forced to leave the vast cattle ranches for Auckland. three complicated murder plots his superiors want to Henry Stroud, proprietor of the “I Fry” takeaway sweep under the carpet. wagon, takes him under his wing and rechristens him Mr Dog. Still full of anger six years later, Chester sets out to plot revenge on his father’s killer. This mythical CORRECTIONS, THE Franzen, Jonathan 653pp 2001 story reconfigures the New Zealand experience with an absorbing coming-of-age tale. A mid-Western American family, the Lamberts, are in disarray. Patriarch Albert is suffering from Parkinson’s CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, A Disease, his wife Enid is attempting to break out of the Berne, Suzanne 248pp 1998 constraints of their long marriage, and their three adult children are each buffeted by the options forced upon Ten-year-old Marsha narrates this story set in 1970s them. The book takes a bittersweet look at a family suburban Washington. The horrifying murder of struggling to maintain its identity against the stresses a young boy is the most visible crime in Marsha’s of the modern age. Quirky, and engaging. Winner, neighbourhood, but it is by no means the only one. National Book Award, 2001. First novel by this author. Winner of the Orange Prize, 1999.

CRIME STORY M OH COVE, THE Gee, Maurice 272pp 1994 Rash, Ron 255pp 2012 Worlds separate Brent Rosser, a petty thief, from Ulla Eking out a living on their patch of land, siblings Peet, wife of Athco Properties’ Athol Peet. A burglary Laurel and Hank Skelton keep to themselves until the gone wrong brings them into confrontation. A chilling arrival of an injured man breaches their physical and novel of 1990s New Zealand that asks questions about emotional isolation. Initially a source of happiness, the perpetrators of crime and the victims, the price of his presence ultimately leads the trio into tragic greed, and personal isolation. Some graphic passages. conflict with their local community. Set in North Carolina towards the end of World War One, this is a powerful story with hidden depths, perfectly matched CRIMSON ROOMS, THE O McMahon, Katharine 457pp 2009 to its setting and incorporating surprising true events that occurred in the area. In a society recovering from World War I, Evelyn Gifford trains as one “We loved it. We thought, although ‘dark’, it was one of England’s first female solicitors. of the best books we’ve read this year.” In contrast to her trailblazing Christchurch 238 employment, her home life is repressed following the death of “Enjoyed by everyone. Lively discussion, wide ranging.” her younger brother in the trenches. Hamilton 038 Against this backdrop of a nation grappling with change, Evelyn too is “We all loved this book - very dark, but good writing.” challenged to move beyond her grief Ashburton 016 and seek justice for those around her. An easy-to-read “A great read, pacy and atmospheric.” style and a fascinating examination of the social issues of the time make this an engaging story. Wellington 116

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CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER CURATIVE, THE M Franklin, Tom 274pp 2010 Randall, Charlotte 254pp 2000 Set in Mississippi, this is a novel deeply rooted in its William Lonsdale, a previously wealthy nobleman, is rural landscape. Larry Ott, white and middle class an inmate in Bedlam, London’s lunatic asylum of the and Silas Jones, poor and black, were once childhood 1800s. As narrator, his acerbic wit, worldliness and friends, their paths converging again years later when lucid insights, pull the reader into his rich past and a young girl disappears in similar circumstances to troubled present. events in their youth. With its superbly developed characters, its challenges to Southern stereotypes, CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE O and a storyline alternating between the 1970s and the NIGHT-TIME, THE present, this is a murder mystery with a difference. Haddon, Mark 272pp 2003 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Winner 2011. A murder mystery like no other. Christopher Boone is a fifteen-year-old who suffers from Asperger’s CROSSING TO SAFETY Syndrome. He understands maths and science, but he Stegner, Wallace 327pp 1987 cannot understand other human beings. When the dog This book is one of the greatest and most cherished next door is killed by a garden fork, Christopher sets off American novels of the 20th century. Tracing the in the manner of Sherlock Holmes to find the killer. lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet CUTTING FOR STONE majesty, deep compassion and powerful insight into Verghese, Abraham 541pp 2009 the alchemy of friendship and marriage. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and CROW LAKE a brash Orthopaedic surgeon. Orphaned by their Lawson, Mary 295pp 2002 mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound Kate Morrison relives events that left seven-year-old together by a preternatural connection and a shared Kate, her toddler sister, and two teenage brothers to fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as fend for themselves after their parents are killed in a Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving car accident. Planning a return trip to her childhood from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, home in rural northern Ontario, she recalls her Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and upbringing, the tragedy, and her brother’s sacrifices to betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles – and two hold the family together. brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

CRYPTOGRAPHER, THE DARK ROOM, THE Hill, Tobias 272pp 2004 Seiffert, Rachel 391pp 2001 Having created the world’s first electronic currency A novel in three parts. The stories of three ordinary from an unbreakable code, John Law, owner of Germans: a young photographer in 1930s Berlin; Soft Mark, is the world’s first quadrillionaire. He is a twelve-year-old girl guiding her siblings across a mysterious and charming, but with something to hide. devastated Germany in 1945, and fifty years later, a It is tax inspector Anna Moore’s job to find out just young teacher obsessed with what his grandfather did what is behind Law’s wry smile and calm demeanour. in the war. Seiffert uncovers a landscape of deep and dreadful ambivalence. Shortlisted Booker Prize, 2001. CUBA AND THE NIGHT Iyer, Pico 234pp 1995 DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE Allende, Isabel 399pp 1999 Iyer’s skills as a travel writer are used to effect with setting and atmosphere in this first novel. Castro’s With the help of a Chinese physician friend, a young Cuba is the central character: “…the melancholic, Chilean woman is smuggled onto a sailing ship in ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island”. The 1849, bound for the Californian goldfields. Both narrator is a jaded journalist who meets a woman he characters are searching; she for her lost lover, he suspects is only looking for a ticket to America. for some purpose in a foreign world. Inspired by California’s short, but extravagant history.

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DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW O DEATH IN SUMMER Trollope, Joanna 329pp 2010 Trevor, William 214pp 1998 Rachel Brinkley’s life irrevocably changes when her After his wife’s death, Thaddeus Davenport places an youngest son marries. No longer is she the most important advertisement in the newspaper looking for a nanny for woman in her sons’ lives; that mantle now belongs to her his baby daughter. He does get some response, but in daughters-in-law. The resulting shift in the power structure the end his mother-in-law takes on the task of nanny to of the family and the changing allegiances are as painful her daughter. One of the rejected applicants forms an as they are inevitable. Keenly observed family dynamics unnatural obsession for Thaddeus, and he finds his life and recognisable characters and situations, make this an changing, yet again. enjoyable and insightful story of a family grappling with change. DEATH OF VISHNU, THE Suri, Manil 329pp 2001 DAVITA’S HARP On the landing of a Bombay apartment building, Potok, Chaim 438pp 1985 Vishnu lies in a coma, near death. While he vividly A novel about a girl who is influenced by both Hasidic dreams of his past, around him the residents tell Jews and Christians in her US upbringing. stories of their daily lives. We follow their squabbles, dreams and romances. Combines Hindu and Islamic mythology, a dash of Bollywood, and acutely observed DEAD MAN’S RANSOM O Peters, Ellis 1984 189pp detail of life in Bombay.

A detective story where Peters uses her thorough DEFENDING JACOB O knowledge of Medieval history. The detective, Brother Landay, William 488pp 2012 Cadfael, is a monk. Set near Wales in the 12th century. Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber is tasked with finding the killer of a boy who attends the same school DEATH OF BEES, THE as his teenage son Jacob. What starts off as a standard, O’Donnel, Lisa 294pp 2012 albeit distressing investigation, becomes every parent’s worst nightmare when Jacob is accused of the murder. Marnie Doyle is candid about the This clever and riveting story not only grapples with the fact that the safest place she has ever intricacies of the legal system but confidently enters the been was the neonatal intensive nature versus nurture and child rearing debates. care unit following her premature birth. Fifteen years later, she and her younger sister Nelly are facing DEGREES OF SEPARATION M challenging circumstances: abuse Fearnley, Laurence 233pp 2006 and neglect have been their constant On board an aircraft, as it makes its way from the companions and now they’ve just Antarctic to New Zealand, three people sit quietly, finished burying their parents in their back garden in reflecting on their past summer on the ice. Sally, a a Glasgow housing estate. Fortunately their elderly composer who has been searching for inspiration; neighbour Lennie is about to offer some avuncular William, a bird scientist who has been visiting support. Recounted by three different characters, this Antarctica since the 1960s, and Marilyn, a young is a compelling adventure in suburban dysfunction communications operator, tell their stories in and survival, reverberating with black humour. alternating chapters. Contrasting the beauty and vastness of the Antarctic with the banality and discomfort of life on the ice, Degrees of Separation “It is extremely poignant but at the same time focuses on themes of love and memory. funny with a very dark humour.” “The story is written from three perspectives which works DELPHINE’S RUN M well. It’s a heart-breaker of a story.” Fearnley, Laurence 223pp 2003 “The story is compelling, and while sad, it’s not depressing.” Delphine works as a food-trolley girl on the Brest- Paris train. Her relationships are complicated and her “Beautifully written – descriptive, with a matter-of-fact tone.” work predictable, until a bomb explosion on the train disturbs the only uncomplicated aspect of her life. BDS Reviewers

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DENNISTON ROSE, THE M DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN Pattrick, Jenny 367pp 2003 Forster, Margaret 403pp 2003 Set in the 1880s in the bleak coal-mining village of Forster’s novel takes the form of a diary. Its author, Denniston. Isolated high on a plateau above the West the engaging Millicent King, born in 1901, confides Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live everything in a series of journals, which become not there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old just an absorbing account of her inner life, but also a Rose and her mother. personal record of the 20th century.

DEPARTURE LOUNGE M O DIGGING TO AMERICA Taylor, Chad 176pp 2006 Tyler, Anne 277pp 2006 Mark Chamberlain, an Auckland burglar, plays a game Two families meet by chance at the Baltimore airport of pool with a cocky entrepreneur who boasts of when their adopted Korean daughters arrive on the building leaky houses and selling them to unsuspecting same flight from Asia. The Donaldsons personify buyers. Chad Taylor’s Departure Lounge, is a tale American middle-class suburbia, while the younger of burglary, loss and urban dislocation, in which Yazdans are part of a large and lively Iranian immigrant a chance discovery leads Mark to memories of his community. Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites childhood in the suburbs around North Head, and the the Yazdans to an “arrival party”, and the annual disappearance of a local girl, Caroline May. Around multicultural party for the girls becomes a shared the time she disappeared, Flight 901 crashed into Mt tradition. The families and their sometimes eccentric Erebus. Taylor blends the national tragedy with the relatives become ever more closely linked. But, when local loss of his fictional Caroline. Bitsy’s widowed father begins to show romantic interest in the Yazdan grandmother, cultural differences are brought to a head. DEVIL’S MUSIC, THE O Rusbridge, Jane 306pp 2009 DINNER, THE Helen and Michael are under Koch, Herman 309pp 2009 pressure. The birth in 1958 of their An upscale Amsterdam restaurant third child should be a happy event and an opportunity for an evening but instead is an ominous portent: of conviviality. But brothers Serge Elaine is severely disabled. No- and Paul are there with their wives, one is immune from the fallout, not to enjoy themselves, but to particularly Andrew, the eldest resolve a dilemma they never child who copes by retreating into a imagined they would face: Their fantasy world. Moving between the teenage sons have been in involved past and the present, Andrew narrates this engaging in a distressing crime that although saga of an English family wrestling with all that caught on CCTV, leaves the boys life has thrown at them. The inclusion of detailed unidentifiable except to their parents. In their efforts information about knots which have significance in to decide on a course of action, old sibling rivalries Andrew’s life and that of his rope-maker grandfather, are laid bare, juxtaposed with their instinctive desire adds charm to an already gripping story. to protect their own. This riveting story offers up the conflicted morality of modern life while serving “Lots of good discussion material in this book, as a disturbing reminder of how thin the veneer of I did enjoy it.” civilised behaviour truly is. “The reading is deft, assured and compelling.” “I found it very cleverly written – and it’s so “This is a book which draws the reader inwards and thought-provoking.” onwards as if on a voyage of discovery.” “The build-up of tension and conflict is gripping.” “It never becomes maudlin or mawkish but is written with a degree of humour and levity.” “Dark, but cleverly constructed reminder of the thin veneer of civilised people. I believe it’s much superior BDS Reviewers to the likes of The Slap.” BDS Reviewers

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DISGRACE EASTER ISLAND O Coetzee, JM 220pp 1999 Vanderbes, Jennifer 431pp 2004 The two worlds of a father and daughter living in Easter Island connects parallel stories of two South Africa are linked by their experiences of the remarkable women: that of Elsa Pendleton who travels state of “disgrace”. David Lurie, a university professor, to the island in 1913 with her much older husband has an affair with a student and, once discovered, and her mentally impaired sister to study the toppled refuses to publicly repent. He takes refuge on Lucy’s moa statues, and that of Dr Greer Farraday who, in the (his daughter) remote property, but cannot avoid the 1970s, after the death of her famed scientist-husband repercussions of his country’s inherited disgrace to and accused of fraud, escapes to the island and studies which Lucy falls victim after a violent home invasion. ancient pollen. Both are connected by love, betrayal Winner Booker Prize. and intellectual endeavour in different times.

DISTANT SHORE, A EDWIN AND MATILDA M Phillips, Caryl 312pp 2003 Fearnley, Laurence 240pp 2007 Two lonely lives intertwine in this novel set in Set in the southern South Island, Edwin and Matilda contemporary England. Dorothy has recently moved describes the unusual and unlikely friendship formed to a new subdivision in a small village after a forced between a 62-year-old photographer, Edwin and retirement. Solomon, an illegal immigrant escaping 22-year-old Matilda, whom he meets when shooting a violent past in Africa, is the night watchman at photographs of her as a bride-to-be. Together, Edwin the subdivision. They form a cautious friendship. A and Matilda embark on a search for Edwin’s mother, a poignant and quietly powerful portrait of contemporary woman he has long believed dead. alienation. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

DOGSIDE STORY M Grace, Patricia 301pp 2001 ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, THE The rivalry of two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, Barbery, Muriel 271pp 2010 leads to the division of their community. The Appearances can be deceptive, communities then become “Godside” (known for something the privileged residents its piety and properness) and “Dogside” (forever of number seven Rue de Grenelle wayward). For Grace, this is a shift in writing, focusing would soon discover if they were more on the internal struggles of Maoridom. to look beyond the seemingly stereotypical character of their DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE O concierge, Renee. Belied by her Packer, ZZ 240pp 2003 simple and humble persona, she is a closet intellectual and cultural With a combination of tenderness and dark humour, enthusiast, which is fortuitously Packer’s debut collection of short stories takes the apparent to kindred spirits and fellow tenants, Kakuro reader into the lives of characters on the periphery, Oza, a Japanese gentleman, and Paloma Fosse, a unsure of where they belong. Several stories are set in disenchanted twelve year old. Rich with philosophical black communities in the American South, and explore ponderings and ‘Profound Thoughts’, this is a clever the identity crises of economically disenfranchised and quirky story worthy of its Parisian setting. teens and young women.

DUBLINERS, THE “The book is often very moving and at other times Joyce, James 207pp 1914 very funny.” “It’s a challenging read but well worth the effort.” A collection of 15 short stories about Irish middle- class men and women in Dublin at the beginning of “It’s both thought-proving and moving.” the 20th century. Joyce’s first masterpiece. “Some will love it but I don’t think all will. You need to have plenty of time to savour this one.” BDS Reviewers

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ENGLISH PASSENGERS ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED O Neale, Matthew 462pp 2000 Hodgen, Chrisite 271pp 2010 An epic tale based on real events in Tasmanian history. Mary Murphy, this is your life. Here It tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric to tell your story are a classmate, a Englishmen who set sail for Tasmania in 1857 to find college roommate, a failed piano the Garden of Eden; the other of a young Tasmanian prodigy, your ne’er do well uncle and Aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading your oft married mother. Narrated British. through odes to those who have shaped her being, this is Mary’s EQUAL MUSIC, AN O life as a daughter, sister and friend; Seth, Vikram 485pp 1999 a life of adversity and despair but ultimately triumph. With its clever format and rich Michael, the sensitive musician and narrator, attempts characterisation this is fresh examination of who and to recapture the nostalgia of the past when he happens what make us the way we are. across his lost love Julia, the woman he left behind in ten years before. Themes of love, music and creativity. “It is beautifully written and thought provoking.” “A most unusual format but it works really well.” EUCALYPTUS “It’s written with an easy, flowing style and Bail, Murray 255pp 1998 has brilliant character development.” A fable-like story about a man obsessed with “While the book ends with a hint of optimism, I eucalyptus and the idea of offering his daughter’s found it quite melancholy.” hand in marriage to any man who can identify all the BDS Reviewers gum species on his property. But, Holland is wary of spinners of tales and their effect on his daughter. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 1999.

EMMA EVERY LAST ONE Austen, Jane 432pp 1816 Quindlen, Anna 299pp 2011 Classical novel on “the frequent disconnections The Lathams are the quintessential successful family: Mary between an individual’s inner life and the smooth Beth with her landscaping business, husband Glen an world of manners”. Emma is a study of self-deceit and ophthalmologist, and their three enviable teenagers. It’s self-discovery. hard to imagine anything upsetting the smooth trajectories of their lives, but when it does, it is in the aftermath of ENDURING LOVE McEwan, Ian 243pp 1997 tragedy that the survivors’ true mettle becomes apparent. Insightful and easy to read, this is a story about living The organised life of science writer, Joe Rose, is through the unthinkable. changed irrevocably when he witnesses a tragic air balloon accident. In the rescue attempt, he meets a EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE stranger who develops a haunting obsession for him. It Foer, Jonathan Safran 326pp 2006 becomes a test on Joe’s rationalism, and his marriage. Following his father’s death in 9/11, Oskar Schell, a ENGLEBY precocious nine year old, sets out to find the matching Faulks, Sebastian 342pp 2007 lock for a key he believes belonged to his father. His search, taking him across New York, becomes a Meet Mike Engleby, a second-year university student. journey through his grief. Entwined with this quest Despite the fact that Mike is obviously intelligent and is the unlocking of the story of Oskar’s grandparents, involved in many clubs, it is clear that something about survivors of the Dresden firebombing in WW II. A Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on poignant examination of loss, grief and adjustment. a classmate named Jennifer and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved?

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FAMILY ALBUM O FASTING, FEASTING Lively, Penelope 260pp 2009 Desai, Anita 228pp 1999 Allersmead, a large and sprawling Edwardian home for A novel of vignettes that focuses on a close-knit Indian the Harpers, a large and sprawling family. When the family. The eldest unmarried daughter, still at home, adult children, all six of them, visit their aging parents pines to be elsewhere, while her ambitious sister and Ingrid, the au pair who never left, dust is blown succeeds in marrying “well”. Brother Arun, the heir off childhood memories, snapshots of earlier times are of the family, is sent off to an American university. As re-examined and family secrets exposed to the light Desai observes, “If one part of the community suffers, of day. With its vivid characters, their mishmash of everybody suffers”. memories and Allersmead at its heart, this is an acute and enjoyable observation of family life. FEATHERSTONE M Gunn, Kirsty 256pp 2002 FAMILY MATTERS During one long, hot summer weekend in a small Mistry, Rohinton 500pp 2002 town, we learn that, years ago, a young girl, Francie, In 1990s Bombay, Nariman Vakeel is a 79-year-old left Featherstone never to return. Francie’s uncle, Parsi widower, suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and Sonny, becomes convinced that she has returned. living with his two resentful stepchildren. Becoming But is Francie real, a figment of his desires, or an bedridden with a broken ankle, he is forced to apparition? Life in Featherstone becomes unsettled, recuperate at his daughter’s house, which tests intense and intimate. relationships and family ties. Booker Shortlist, and Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for FINE BALANCE, A Fiction, 2002. Mistry, Rohinton 752pp 1996 Set in mid-1970s India, after the FAMILY TREE, THE O declaration of a “State of Internal Cadwalladr, Carole 476pp 2005 Emergency” by Indira Ghandi. Four Ostensibly, The Family Tree is about the Monroe family: characters are brought together they bicker, go on caravanning holidays and throw parties to by circumstance, eventually to celebrate the wedding of Charles and Di. But, demons are overcome social and political lurking beneath the chintz. It’s the story of three generations barriers. A compelling narrative that of relatives from the 1940s to the present, showing a funny, balances simple humanity, humour unsentimental view of a family unravelling, and then coming and hope with the inevitable forces together. of fate.

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD FIRST LOVE Hardy, Thomas 491pp 1875 Turgenev, Ivan 106pp 1880s Classical novel. Hardy’s first love story. About the A novella translated from the Russian. Turgenev attitudes and habits of rural men and women. describes a young boy’s growth as he is awakened to the complicated nature of adult love. Penguin Classics FAREWELL SPEECH M edition. MacAlpine, Rachel 285pp 1990 FISH OF THE INLAND SETO SEA A novel on Ada Wells, Kate Sheppard, and other early Pilgrim, Ruri 316pp 1999 Christchurch feminists. The best fish in Japan, it is said, come from the rapid FAREWELL TO ARMS, A waters of the Seto Inland Sea, also the native homeland Hemingway, Ernest 286pp 1926 of Pilgrim’s family. The author recounts the customs of a little-known society, especially as they affect women. Novel from the Italian front, 1918, about the love affair Although the narrative takes place during an historical between an American ambulance driver and an English period of enormous change (1870s to 1950s), the small nurse. details resonate.

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FREEING GRACE M O FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR O Norman, Charity 355pp 2010 Kingsolver, Barbara 597pp 2012 What’s best for Grace? This question is at the heart of Change is in the air for young this story that considers the fate of a mixed race baby. mother Dellarobia Turnbow and Following the sudden death of her young mother, her friends and family in the small the scene is set with plenty of scope to explore the Appalachian community where they complex issues and dilemmas of adoption. On one eke out a living. Their impoverished side are an infertile couple, and on the other, the settlement becomes the centre of dysfunctional family of Grace’s teenage father. With world attention with the appearance its realistic characters and easy to read style, this is an of a seemingly miraculous natural engrossing and compassionate novel about making phenomenon. Both dazzling and difficult choices. alarming, this marvel is the catalyst for Dellarobia to question everything she has always known, as well as FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN, THE presenting an opportunity for the author’s background Fowles, John 399pp 1969 as a scientist to come to the fore in a thought- provoking exploration of the complexities of climate In this contemporary Victorian-style novel Charles change and the fragility of the natural world. Smithson, a nineteenth-century gentleman with glimmerings of twentieth-century perceptions, falls in love with enigmatic Sarah Woodruff, who has been “A novel that held my interest from start to finish.” jilted by a French lover. “This book is fast-paced, confronting, and yet simply a good story.” FRUIT OF THE LEMON “The climate change events in this book are fictional Levy, Andrea 341pp 1999 but based on real events in Mexico in 2010. It makes it much more interesting.” London-born Faith Jackson is furious when her parents decide to retire to their native . However, BDS Reviewers when her own English life becomes less than perfect, Faith makes the journey back to her roots — discovering her own prejudices about Caribbean culture. FLIGHT OF THE MAIDENS, THE Gardam, Jane 278pp 2000 FUGITIVE PIECES O Set in the summer of 1946 with three young women Michaels, Anne 294pp 1997 poised between school and university. Gardam paints Jakob Beer’s parents are murdered by Nazi soldiers an intelligent and often witty picture of the leaving- behind of childhood, and the new freedoms of post- and his sister abducted. He is miraculously rescued war England. by a Greek geologist. They migrate to Canada, but Jabob’s spirit remains linked with that of his lost FORRESTS, THE M O sister. Winner, Orange Prize for Fiction, 1997. Perkins, Emily 340pp 2012

Meet the Forrests: Americans Frank and Lee and their GARDEN PARTY, THE M children, Michael, Dorothy, Evelyn and Ruth who settle Mansfield, Katherine 255pp 1932 in Auckland in the 1970s. Like any family they have Short stories. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour their endearing qualities and their idiosyncrasies. Their in quite ordinary situations. story is told in a series of snapshots through Dorothy’s eyes as she experiences the universal life events of marriage and family and the inevitable loss and grief along the way. Evocative detail and a realistic but sensitive portrayal of family life make this distinctly New Zealand novel a pleasure to read.

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GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS, THE through her family’s troubled history to try to make Tan, Twan Eng 348pp 2012 sense of his death and uncovers uncomfortable truths In the Cameron Highlands of Malaya following World about her family. War 2, Chinese Malay Yun Ling becomes apprenticed to Nakamura Aritomo (a man who had once been GET ON THE WAKA M the gardener to Emperor Hirohito) in order to create Ihimaera, Witi (editor) 184pp 2007 a garden to honour her sister who died in a Japanese A collection of fiction writing by Maori since POW camp. Years later Yun Ling returns to the area 2000, selected and with an introduction by Witi to make sense of all that has happened. Spanning Ihimaera. It showcases 17 stories and extracts from a changing Malaysia from colonial times to the established writers, most of whom have won awards present day, this is a beautifully wrought tale of exotic and recognition in New Zealand and overseas. landscapes, political upheaval and intriguing mystery. Contributors include: ; Alan Duff; Paula With its exquisite imagery and deep connection to the Morris; Kelly Ana Morey; ; and others. natural world, it is a book to be savoured. GIANT O’BRIEN, THE O GATHERING OF WATERS O Mantel, Hilary 211pp 1998 McFadden, Bernice L 252pp 2012 Charles O’Brien, a genial Irish giant with a flair for A town with the name of Money storytelling, comes to London in 1782 with a band of is sure to attract attention. But the hangers-on to display himself in order to make money. fact that the town itself narrates He is doomed, because he can’t stop growing. Based this mystical story guarantees your on a real person, O’Brien’s bones lie in the Hunterian absolute attention. At its core are Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London. three generations of Hilson women, Doll, Hemingway and Tass, their GILEAD lives woven into historical events Robinson, Marilynne 282pp 2004 of the area: the Mississippi floods In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, of 1927, the murder of young black man Emmett he begins a letter to his young son about the tension Till in 1955 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This is between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his the Deep South with racism and the spiritual realm grandfather. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher coexisting in an enticing mixture of truth and fantasy. and the grandson of a minister who went to Kansas to An easy, lively read. fight for abolition. Reverend Ames tells a story of the bonds between fathers and sons. At the same time, his “A delightfully written narrative in which two tender and strained relationship with his namesake, major historical events are interwoven into a story - John Ames Boughton — his best friend’s wayward son it’s very hard to put down.” — is severely tested. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer and National Book Circle Critics’ Fiction Prizes. “Very well written with good character development.”

“While the plot tends towards the mystical and spirit GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, THE world, there is something still quite believable or Durrow, Heidi W 264pp 2010 acceptable about it all to the reader.” BDS Reviewers The daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., Rachel Morse was eventually going to have to confront her biracial parentage. But as the sole survivor of a family tragedy, she has her work cut out for her. Not GATHERING, THE only must she embrace a new life with her African Enright, Anne 260pp 2007 American grandmother, but establish her identity in a Blending past and present, childhood and struggling world that requires her to be black or white. Told from maturity, death and earthy life, The Gathering traces multiple perspectives, this is a story of broken dreams, Veronica Hegarty’s journey back to her family home race and class, and the universal quest for identity. for the funeral of her brother Liam, an alcoholic who Winner of the Bellwether Prize. suicided in the sea at Brighton. His mother and eight of the nine surviving Hegarty children gather in Dublin for his wake. Veronica, the novel’s narrator looks

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GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE O GIRL IN TRANSLATION Larsson, Stieg 533pp 2008 Kwok, Jean 304pp 2010 A Swedish novel featuring crusading journalist Mikael Arriving on American shores Blomkvist investigating a decades old disappearance of from Hong Kong, eleven year old a child. He is helped by researcher Lisbeth Salander, Kimberley Chang and her mother a genius computer hacker, non-conformist, socially are destined for the hardship, challenged individual and the girl with the dragon struggle and the cultural dissonance tattoo. The investigation and Mikael’s simultaneous that characterises the live of attempts to expose a corrupt industrialist become migrants. From the sweatshops and interwoven. This examination of individual and poverty of New York slums to the corporate corruption and disturbing family dysfunction possibility of a better life, this is a combines the classic components of carefully crafted story of determination, hope and battling against the ‘whodunnit’ with the fast paced action of a page- odds. Insightful and inspirational. turning thriller. Its imperfect but intriguing characters will have you thinking about them well after you have finished the last page. British Crime Thriller of the Year “Everyone enjoyed the book. Well written, easy read.” 2009. Paihia 003 “We enjoyed the book immensely. An easy read.” GIRLS, THE Lansens, Lori 345pp 2006 Richmond 005 “Thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it.” During a tornado in tiny Leaford, Ontario, twins are born to an unmarried teenage runaway. The girls, Ruby Geraldine 002 and Rose, are conjoined twins, connected at the head. “We all enjoyed this book. Well told, easy to read.” Horrified and scared, the new mother abandons the babies, leaving them to be raised by the nurse present 006 at the birth. At the age of 29 when the girls are not “Fantastic story which everyone enjoyed. expected to live much longer, Rose decides to write her We’d recommend it to everyone.” autobiography on their remarkable lives. Gisborne 010 GLASS PALACE, THE Ghosh, Amitav 552pp 2000

GIRL WHO PLAYED GO, THE Spanning most of the 20th century and starting with Sa, Shan 280pp 2003 the British arrival in Burma, this story carries Dolly and Rajkumar, and other characters, through the growing Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s. In opposition to British rule in India, the Japanese the “Square of a Thousand Winds”, a sixteen-year-old invasion of Burma and Malaya, and back to the military Chinese girl beats all-comers at the ancient game of state of Burma/Myanmar in 1996. Go. One of her opponents is a Japanese officer of the occupying power. Their encounters are like the game GO-BETWEEN, THE itself — subtle, but surprisingly fierce. Hartley, LP 280pp 1953

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING An old man recalls his boyhood and the experience Chevalier, Tracy 248pp 1999 that shaped his life. A profound and poetic novel. Set in 17th-century Delft, this historical novel, inspired GOD BOY, THE M by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, Cross, Ian 181pp 1957 intertwines the art of Vermeer with his life and that of a servant. Sixteen-year-old Griet goes to work in the A small boy narrates events of the past, which changed his home of the painter and becomes his subject. Through life as he was caught up in an adult drama. her eyes, we experience the complicated family life, the small town society and life with an obsessive genius.

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GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE GOOD TO A FAULT O Roy, Arundhati 340pp 1997 Endicott, Marina 437pp 2008 Roy comments on the title: “There’s a sort of An innocuous drive to the bank becomes a life- invincibility in the small thing, because it is not seeking changing event for Clara Purdy when she causes a car to be a big thing.” A novel set in the late 1960s in accident that involves the Gage family. In the fallout, Ayemenem, western India; most of it is told by the with the young mother remaining in hospital, Clara’s twins of a Syrian Christian family, engaging an eclectic orderly existence is thrown into chaos when she offers mix of people. Funny and tragic. Booker Prize to help and the family moves in with her. The resulting Winner, 1997. domestic tableau of mess and unpredictability provides the setting for the gentle examination of the perennial GODWITS FLY, THE M themes at the heart of our relationships with others Hyde, Robin 259pp 1938 while addressing the question: is it possible to be good to a fault? Winner, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize A New Zealand classic, first published in 1938. 2009, Canada and Caribbean. Strongly autobiographical, it vividly conveys Eliza Hannay’s growth to adulthood, her dreams of poetry and love, and her painful encounters with the realities GOSPEL OF JUDAS, THE Mawer, Simon 345pp 2000 of romance. Roman Catholic priest and renown biblical-era scholar, GOLDEN AGE, A O Leo Newman, is summoned to Jerusalem to decipher Anam, Tahmima 317pp 2007 a recently discovered scroll. Leo senses that the scroll, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete The 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence was short- reinterpretation. He finds his faith challenged further lived but for widowed Rehana Haque and her adult by his attraction to Madeline, the wife of a British children Sohail and Maya, their lives will never be diplomat. All narrative strands seamlessly produce a the same again. Caught up in the struggle for a new tightly crafted literary thriller, and a tale of love and nation they find themselves passionately embroiled in betrayal. a revolution. Empathetic characters, historical insight and an exotic setting create an epic story of family, politics and a little known war. GRAPES OF WRATH, THE Steinbeck, John 416pp 1939 GONE GIRL O An American mid-west family’s journey to the false Flynn, Gillian 466pp 2012 Garden of Eden of California during the Depression. At the five year mark, Nick and Amy Dunne’s marriage has run into a spot of trouble – Amy has disappeared GRAVE TATTOO, THE O McDermid, Val 543pp 2006 and Nick is, understandably, in the spotlight. In this clever psychological thriller, twists and turns abound The Grave Tattoo has England’s Lake District as the and Nick is not the only one under close scrutiny. 21st backdrop for a drama of life and death — the ultimate century USA is under the microscope too, particularly prize, a bounty worth millions. A little-known fact the court of public opinion and trial by media. Clear about Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny on the your calendar, you won’t be able to put this book “Bounty”, was that he was born on a farm in Cumbria, down. in the English Lake District, in 1764, six years before William Wordsworth, whom he probably knew. The GOOD EARTH, THE O theory is that, after the mutiny, Christian left Pitcairn Buck, Pearl S 357pp 1931 Island and returned to England to clear his name. Did Christian fake his own death in order to return home The classic story of Wang Lung and his wife O-Lan. secretly? This remarkable novel depicts the suffering and hardship of poverty and the struggle to achieve prosperity, as well as the strictures of tradition GREAT GATSBY, THE Fitzgerald, F Scott 188pp 1926 that shaped and controlled daily life in rural pre- revolutionary China. The book was a Pulitzer Prize A novel of the “jazz age” symbolising the American winner; the author received the Nobel Prize for dream. The first part of a trilogy, but quite self- Literature, 1938. contained.

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GUERNSEY LITERARY & POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, THE HAND ME DOWN WORLD Shaffer, Mary Ann 256pp 2008 M O Jones, Lloyd 313pp 2010 As London emerges from the shadow Moving from Africa to Europe, a young woman of the World War II, writer Juliet undertakes an ambitious journey involving child Ashton is looking for her next book kidnapping, people smuggling and exploitation. subject. When her publisher passes Revealed to us by the people she encounters, a surprising on a letter from a man she’s never story unfolds. It is a tale of love and betrayal and need; met — a native of Guernsey who a contemporary odyssey that compels you to keep on has come across her name written reading to uncover the truth. inside a book — they begin to exchange letters. Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, THE O’Farrell, Maggie 374pp 2010 who, under German occupation, formed the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Juliet corresponds Lexie and Elina are young women living in London 50 with the society’s members, learning about their island, years apart; Lexie is a journalist in 1950’s Soho and their taste in books and the impact the recent German Elina, a present day artist who along with her partner occupation has had on their lives. Ted is recovering from the traumatic birth of their first child. When Ted seeks to understand his own GULLIVER’S TRAVELS childhood, the dual stories begin to collide, solving Swift, Jonathan 320pp 1726 a decades-old mystery and exposing the reader to the richness of lives passionately led. This is a novel Satire on humans and human institutions; also a tale of of mesmerising characters and family secrets well- travels to fantastical lands. seasoned with the peaks and troughs of love and parenthood. HALF OF A YELLOW SUN Adichie, Chimamandi Ngozi 433pp 2006 HANDMAID’S TALE, THE This novel recreates a seminal moment in modern Atwood, Margaret 324pp 1987 African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to A visionary novel that looks to the future of the human establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the race and a world radically changed. Offred, the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. Adichie handmaid, learns how to survive in the repressive, weaves together the lives of three characters swept up post-holocaust Republic of Gilead. Ominous in the turbulence of the decade: Ugwu, a thirteen-year- references to the “time before” points to present-day old peasant houseboy who survives conscription into society. the Biafran army, and twin sisters Olanna and Kainene. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their HANNA’S DAUGHTERS Fredriksson, Marianne 360pp 1998 loyalties to one another. In modern-day Stockholm, Anna discovers a sepia HAMILTON CASE, THE photograph of her grandmother as a young woman, De Kretser, Michelle 369pp 2003 quite unlike the cold, forbidding person she thinks she knows. Curiosity leads Anna to discover the realities of Set in 1930s Ceylon. Sam Obeysekere, born to a past generations. Translated from Swedish. privileged family and educated at Oxford, returns home to practice law. When he is approached to give his thoughts on the Hamilton Case, a scandalous HARLEQUIN REX M Marshall, Owen 299pp 1999 murder that shakes the upper echelon of island society, he is flattered by the request and declares an David Stallman becomes a nurse to patients known Englishman guilty of the crime. His accusation will as “Harlequins”, at the Slaven Centre near Picton. have devastating consequences for his future. They are victims of an epidemic resembling Tourette’s Syndrome, a disease of disinhibition. His relationship with staff and patients form the action. A sadder, wiser man, he leaves as a possible carrier of the disease to an unprepared world. Montana NZ Book Awards Deutz Medal, 2000.

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HARMONY SILK FACTORY, THE HEART OF THE MATTER, THE Aw, Tash 362pp 2005 Greene, Graham 271pp 1948 Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 1940s with World A policeman in a British colony in Africa during the War II as backdrop, and the Japanese about to invade. war is led to disaster. A story of love and faith. It is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman whose shop house, “The Harmony Silk HEATHER BLAZING, THE Factory”, is used as a front for his illegal businesses; Tóibín, Colm 245pp 1993 Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta A High Court judge who, nearing retirement, is Valley’s most prominent families; Kunichika, a Japanese made to understand that he has hardly begun to live. officer who loves Snow, and an Englishman, Peter Redmond’s survey of his life is etched against the Wormwood, who went to Malaysia and who also loved Wexford coastline. Irish novel. Snow to the end of his life. A journey that exposes the cultural tensions of the era. HEFT O Moore, Liz 352pp 2012 HEART OF DARKNESS Conrad, Joseph 343pp 1902 Arthur Opp describes himself as ‘colossally fat’. At the opposite end of the physical spectrum is teenager Kel Three stories by a master storyteller, Heart of Keller, an aspiring baseball star. Never the twain shall Darkness tells of a journey into the heart of the meet, but for Charlene, Kel’s mother. Once a student Belgian Congo, as well as that of Mr Kurtz, the of Arthur’s, she re-establishes contact, setting in play ivory hunter. Powerful adventure. a connection that will change their lives. A tale of suburban New York, this story examines isolation and loneliness and the transformative power of connection HEALING, THE and community. Odell, Jonathan 340pp 2012 Polly Shine is a healer and midwife HELP, THE Stockett, Kathryn 451pp 2009 and as such is purchased to attend to the slaves of the Satterfield Twenty-two year old Skeeter has just returned home plantation. On arrival she is faced after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a with an unexpected situation; degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother Granada, the young black girl being will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. raised as if she is the daughter of Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising the house, appears to possess a her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted talent similar to her own, one she is inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while reluctant to embrace. But the ability his bosses looked the other way. Minny, Aibileen’s best to heal is a precious gift not to be squandered, and friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Polly’s determination to bring it to fruition will affect Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but everyone on the plantation, black or white. Based she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. on oral histories of the period, this is an unforgettable Seemingly as different from one another as can be, story of strong women and the antebellum South that these women come together for a clandestine project ponders the true nature of freedom and the healing that will put them all at risk. power of story. HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY “Great read, well written and engrossing.” Niffenegger, Audrey 390pp 2009 “The author had an almost uncanny ability to see Step into the world of mirror twins, family dysfunction life through the slaves’ eyes (and for many of and the supernatural. A highly readable ghost story them, their fear of freedom).” featuring teenagers Julia and Valentina Poole fulfilling “The story keeps the reader enthralled - the author the conditions of their aunt’s will by moving into her cleverly reveals small pieces via classic story telling.” apartment overlooking Highgate Cemetery in London. This fascinating setting is the backdrop for Niffenegger’s BDS Reviewers investigation of the big questions in life: love, loss, identity and death.

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HIBISCUS COAST M HOKITIKA TOWN M Morris, Paula 253pp 2005 Randall, Charlotte 272pp 2012 Emma Taupere is back in Auckland after a stint learning Hokitika in the 1860s is a bustling and colourful town, painting in Shanghai. Her ex-boyfriend, Siaki, has home to a young lad, Halfie, and a motley bunch of talked her into becoming involved in an international ne’er-do-wells. Delighting in linguistic high jinks, this scam to steal two Goldies from the Auckland Museum story brings to life the glory days of the gold rush and and replace them with forgeries. Hibiscus Coast is set offers a vivid snapshot of West Coast history. in an art world inhabited by ruthless collectors who will do anything to own certain paintings — even resort to HOMESTEAD crime. Lippi, Rosina 206pp 2001 A collection of twelve linked stories, each told by a different woman from the isolated Austrian village HIRED MAN, THE of Rosenau. These introspective stories interweave Forna, Aminatta 293pp 2013 to form a picture of the village throughout the 20th When an English family descend on century. Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award. the Croatian town of Gost for the summer, Duro Kotak is hired to help HOPEFUL TRAVELLER, THE M with the renovation of their cottage, Farrell, Fiona 269pp 2002 the ‘Blue House’. As the restoration This is a book of two independent, yet parallel halves, progresses, it is not just a beautiful beginning at either end of the book and upside down mosaic and other treasures that to each other. In 1851, six people buy an island at the are revealed, but so too are Duro’s end of the world, while in the present day, six prepare memories of Gost’s conflicted past to celebrate a fiftieth birthday on that same island. when its citizens were at war with Some 150 years separate the two halves, but subtle one another. As the temperature rises, so too does echoes link them together. the tension as Duro tells his story, both past and present, of his familiarity with the ‘Blue House’ and the nightmare he and his neighbours endured. A beautifully crafted story that presents recent Eastern HONEY GUIDE, THE European history in an accessible and credible Crompton, Richard 309pp 2013 manner. Unlike his superiors, Mollel, a former Maasai warrior turned detective, is not prepared to relinquish the “There’s lots to discuss with this one: ethnic cleansing, search for the killer of a prostitute found dead in a civil war, loyalty, power of one person over another.” Nairobi park. His quest will take him from tower blocks to slums and everything between. Add a riot “I cannot praise this book enough. It is beautifully written.” or two and rocketing tribal tensions and Nairobi is a powder keg just waiting to blow. Set around the “There is violence, but the writer is not cruelly explicit, period of the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections, this preferring to imply rather than giving the gory details.” is a compelling whodunnit that brings the streets of BDS Reviewers this turbulent African city to life.

“Fabulous read, I couldn’t put it down. Well researched and well written.” HOBBIT, THE Tolkien, JRR 318pp 1954 “The novel is colourful, suspenseful, exciting, and not easily put down as it builds to its climax.” The hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, reluctantly joins thirteen dwarves on a venture to win a share of the treasure “There’s all kinds of violence and evil-doing, but it’s well written and gives a vivid picture of struggling Kenya.” held by the dragon, Smaug. A famous fantasy- adventure work, peopled with creatures from folklore “A compelling whodunit with an African background. and the writer’s imagination. It’s a pity the author didn’t use speech marks though.” BDS Reviewers

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HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE HOUSEKEEPER & THE PROFESSOR, THE Wharton, Edith 338pp 1905 Ogawa, Yoko 180pp 2010 Introduction written in 1985. Rediscovered novel from With only eighty minutes of short-term memory, an the New York world of the moneyed classes. This is the elderly Japanese mathematics professor greets each story of the tragedy of a failed social climber, Lily Bart, new day with no recollection of the previous one, who desperately seeks to hide her poverty. US. including his housekeeper and her young son. On the clean slate of each new morning they develop a HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, THE tender and complicated relationship revolving around Dubus, André III 365pp 2000 the professor’s joy and passion for mathematics and baseball. A charming story of deceptive simplicity, A modern tragedy set in California that captures the guaranteed to convert the mathematically challenged dark side of the immigrant experience. Behrani, a to the beauty and mystery of numbers. former colonel in the Shah’s Air Force, yearns to restore his family’s dignity and sees an opportunity to have his own piece of the American Dream in the purchase of a country bungalow. But, the former owner has her own desperate reasons to get the house back. A legal HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE Dilloway, Margaret 331pp 2010 tussle escalates into personal confrontation — with dire results. Armed with little more than a handbook entitled ‘How to be an American Housewife’, Japanese warbride Shoko Morgan can hardly wait to reach HOUSE OF THE MOSQUE, THE California. But decades later when she is finally Abdolah, Kader 431pp 2005 ready to return home to Japan and make peace with her family, it’s not to be. Instead she sends her Having lived in the house attached daughter Suiko (Sue) and grand- daughter Helena to the mosque for eight centuries, who discover a world and a culture as foreign to them Aqa Jaan and his kin epitomise a as the one Shoko had encountered on her arrival in devout Muslim family. However, USA. A charming and poignant story featuring family, change is in the air: the Iranian forgiveness and foreign shores. revolution is underway, and the effect on the extended family is “Great read and wonderful discussion.” tumultuous. With its heady mix of Turangi 001 revolution and relationships, politics and power, this story brings to life a “A great read enjoyed by all.” slice of Iranian history imbued with the author’s own Auckland 256 experiences. A captivating snapshot of the last days of “Gread read, insightful, thought-provoking.” the Shah and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Hamilton 047 “We really enjoyed this book and would “Most of us enjoyed the book - a nice easy read.” highly recommend it.” Renwoodtown 001 Nelson 056 “We all loved this book and two would like to own it.” Christchurch 257 HOW TO BE GOOD Hornby, Nick 243pp 2001 “Most of the group found it very enjoyable and very informative. Some didn’t enjoy it.” Dr Kate Carr wants a divorce from her husband David, an under-employed writer with a regular local Rotorua 006 newspaper column entitled, “The Angriest Man in “Everyone liked the book, but the majority loved it.” Holloway”. Family life is turned on its head when Picton 001 David experiences a personal transformation at the hands of a faith healer. “All loved the book. It led to further reading about Iran.” Christchurch 050

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HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT Hamid, Mohsin 228pp 2013 THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED, THE Jonasson, Jonas 396pp 2012 The exhortations from this ‘how-to’ guide will be uncomfortably familiar to citizens of a capitalist And if that’s not amazing in itself, society. To achieve the status of filthy rich, it is there’s more to follow. Allan Karlsson necessary to heed the instructions from the initial goes AWOL on the occasion of his ‘move to the city’ (step one), through to the final 100th birthday party setting forth aphorism ‘have an exit strategy’ (step twelve). Along on a hair-raising adventure. It turns the way it is recommended that you ‘avoid idealists’ out that this is not such an unusual (step four), and if necessary, ‘be prepared to use occurrence for him as he has been violence’ (step seven), and let’s not forget the requisite present at many of the important ‘dance with debt’ (step ten). Accompanying the events of the 20th century. In fact, nameless protagonist from his nameless Asian country Churchill, Franco, Mao, Truman and on his rag-to-riches trajectory, this entertaining no Stalin, to name a few, have cause to be grateful to him. holds barred parody offers the reader a thought- Refreshing and original, Allan’s escapades will have provoking satirical overview that plumbs both the you chuckling as you reflect on the history and politics heights and depths of wealth and poverty. of last century.

“This is a gloriously satirical and cynical book, “Very original with very funny, deadpan humour. You eminently readable. Yet it is also a serious and sad story.” also learn some history along the way.” “This is a brilliant book, a very enjoyable read, an “The book has a very well researched historical time- exciting story.” line and the fictitious-associated antics are hilarious.” “Some readers could find this book flippant. It “Like most humorous books, you do have to be has a wry humour which lightens the sometimes in the right mood to read it.” difficult aspects of the story.” BDS Reviewers BDS Reviewers

HOW TO STOP A HEART FROM BEATING M HUNGER GAMES, THE O Ballantyne, Jackie 302pp 2007 Collins, Suzanne 454pp 2008 The year 1961 is a pivotal one for nine-year-old Solly Every year, the twelve districts of Panem (the remains McKeen. She is a loner in a family of twins, and seen of North America) hold the ‘Hunger Games’, a reality as a bit of an oddity by everyone in her dairy-farming TV show like no other. Pitted against one another, community in South Otago. On learning about the the tributes, twelve girls and twelve boys, compete to unnamed paupers’ graves in the local cemetery, she determine the future prosperity of their regions. But the promises to people them, imagining characters, names price is high; it is a fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen and causes of death for each. While Solly unravels has the dubious honour of representing District 12 death and fills in the blanks on the gravestones, she in this year’s games. This deceptively simple and unwittingly uncovers family secrets. accessible story immerses you in a future that is all too possible. The story is fast-paced, populated with HUNGRY TIDE, THE dynamic characters and overflowing with complex Ghosh, Amitav 400pp 2004 and sophisticated moral questions. As gripping as it is thought-provoking. A story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history. It is set off the easternmost coast of India in I DO NOT COME TO YOU BY CHANCE the Bay of Bengal on a labyrinth of tiny islands known Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia 343pp 2009 as the Sundarbans. Told from the perspective of its two main characters: Kanai, a Delhi businessman and Click on your email and be ready for riches — once translator, and Piya, an American scientist of Indian you’ve handed over your bank account details. A descent, who has come to the country to study the rare young Nigerian man’s fine education has not delivered Irrawaddy dolphin. prosperous employment and his family’s financial problems are mounting. The solution: Kingsley

Open Books, Open Minds 31 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z reluctantly enters the world of email scamming and IN MY FATHER’S DEN M assists his Uncle ‘Cash Daddy’ in filching the gullible Gee, Maurice 175pp 1972 rich. A poignantly humorous morality tale that not When Celia Inverarity is brutally murdered, Paul Prior, only examines the connection between poverty and her English teacher and mentor, is the chief suspect. crime, but highlights the relationship between Africa Celia’s death and the violence that follows, cause him and the West. to examine the past — a past that is as secret as his father’s den. I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Craven, Margaret 168pp 1967 IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN A young priest who has not long to live, is sent to a Matar, Hisham 249pp 2006 village in the wilds of British Colombia. Canadian Set in 1979, this first novel tells the story of Suleiman, fiction. a Libyan boy whose family and friends are targeted as anti-revolutionaries by the repressive government IDEA OF PERFECTION, THE of Muammar Qaddafi, known to his people as the Grenville, Kate 401pp 2001 Guardian. Only nine years old, Suleiman grapples Two outsiders arrive at the depressed little bush town with understanding who the real traitors are, and of Karakarook, New South Wales. Their opposing he finds himself guilty of betraying his friends in an concerns manifest in the debate over the town’s old environment of suspicion in which the government wooden bridge: heritage versus modern engineering. monitors every movement and conversation. Funny and touching in its observations of the plain and the flawed. Winner Orange Prize, 2001.

IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS McGregor, Jon 288pp 2003 O IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN A multi-layered narrative that charts a single day in the Ratner, Vaddey 322pp 2012 life of the residents of an ordinary suburban street that Raami is only seven when the will be shaken by a dramatic event. Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. During their reign of IMPERFECTIONISTS, THE terror when she and her family are Rachman, Tom 274pp 2010 subject to the horrors of their society A wise, funny and moving novel about the people and way of life being destroyed, who write and read an international newspaper based Raami’s survival is bolstered by in Rome. We meet the hapless obituary reporter who the poetry and myths that were will do anything to avoid work, the lonely executive an integral part of her early who falls for the man she just fired, and the eccentric childhood. Based on the author’s publisher who pays more attention to his basset hound own experiences, this moving account is rendered than to his struggling paper. Rachman reveals how beautiful by its lyrical writing and the kindness and the private comedies and tragedies of these characters hope Raami encounters amidst the chaos. [Small font] intertwine at work and at home. “Beautiful, lyrical writing. This is a moving book – IN DARKNESS O because of the author’s writing skills, it’s not harrowing.” Lake, Nick 337pp 2012 “It’s a tough topic but a gripping read and it’s so well When the 2010 Haitian earthquake strikes, 15-year- written and on such an important topic that I think it should be on everyone’s list of ‘Must Reads’.” old Shorty finds himself trapped in the rubble of the collapsed hospital in Port au Prince. From the darkness “It’s a wonderful and powerful piece of writing.” Shorty tells us his harrowing story: a life of misery BDS Reviewers and deprivation, drugs and gang warfare. We hear too of revolution, of Toussaint l’Ouverture the 18th century slave turned freedom fighter and Haiti under French Colonial rule. Told as a dual storyline, this is a challenging novel of Haiti past and present, of freedom and from the darkness, hope.

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IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES INHERITANCE MO Pears, Tim 281pp 1993 Pattrick, Jenny 313pp 2010 In the Place of Fallen Leaves is told from the point of This is a story of friendship, family and the influence of view of a teenager called Alison, and set at the end the past on the present. The appearance of a character of the hot summer of 1986 in England in a tiny, steep from a previous novel Landings, establishes the setting village near Dartmoor — remote and scarcely touched of 1960s Samoa, a melting pot of approaching political by the late 20th century, except for an incursion of independence, family tensions, and challenges to hippies. It’s about childhood and memory, and fear of ‘fa’asamoa’, the traditional Samoan way. Moving the future. The book switches through time as Alison between Samoa and 1990s New Zealand, the author remembers. A memorable debut novel. Hawthornden considers the weight of cultural expectations and the Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award. possible conflict between truth and love. A book to relish, rich in cultural and historical detail. INDUSTRY OF SOULS, THE Booth, Martin 250pp 1998 INHERITANCE OF LOSS, THE Kiran, Desai 336pp 2007 As he wakes up on his eightieth birthday, Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who spent twenty-five years In India in the 1980s, Jemubhai Patel, a Cambridge- in a Soviet gulag after being charged with espionage, educated judge who has retired from serving a country and the next twenty years in the Russian village of he finds “too messy for justice”, lives in an isolated Myshkino, has a major decision to make: will he house with his cook, his orphaned 17-year-old remain in the village or return home to England granddaughter, and a red setter, whose company he where his family has just discovered that he is alive? prefers to that of humans. The tranquillity of Patel’s We learn of the human side of his gulag life and his existence is contrasted with the life of the cook’s son experiences in the village, and how the collapse of the who works in grimy Manhattan restaurants, and with Soviet Union affected them. Short-listed for the Booker his granddaughter’s affair with a Nepali tutor involved Prize. in an insurgency that irrevocably alters his life. Winner, 2006 Man Booker Prize.

INFATUATIONS, THE INSATIABLE MOON, THE MO Marías, Javier 346pp 2013 Riddell, Michael 367pp 1997 Frequenter of a local café, María Dolz becomes Arthur, along with other recovering psychiatric intrigued by a seemingly perfect couple who regularly patients, lives in a boarding house in Ponsonby, occupy a nearby table. But there is to be no perfect Auckland. Believing himself to be the second son life ahead for Luisa and Miguel: Miguel is murdered of God, and intent on his crusade to do God’s work, in broad daylight in a busy Madrid street, something Arthur encounters an eclectic mix of quirky and María would not question but for overhearing a vulnerable people. From his fellow boarders and a disturbing conversation concerning the planning and local minister having a crisis of faith, to a disillusioned execution of a murder …. With its metaphysical housewife from Howick, and an aggressive TV and literary underpinnings, this murder mystery with journalist, each character is clearly drawn and instantly a difference provides in its slow unravelling many recognisable. With its gentle spiritual overtones and opportunities to dwell on the deep questions of life its social policy observations, this is an unconventional and human motivation. story, thoroughly enjoyable and rich with thought provoking ideas.

“This is a quiet, languidly moving, simple and quite INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH stunning story of intrigue, murder and manipulation.” O Urrea, Luis Alberto 338pp 2009 “For me this was a book, written by a gifted writer, that is one to savour and enjoy. I suspect though Inspired by ‘The Magnificent Seven’, a young Mexican that some readers might find it a slow read.” woman and her friends set out on a journey from southern Mexico, north to USA. Their mission: to “I enjoyed the book immensely, but I found myself impatient for the author to get to the point at times.” recruit seven men to help restore their village. A road trip with a difference, this is comic satire with a dash of BDS Reviewers magic realism. An upbeat and entertaining story, that offers unexpected and insightful views of both sides of the border.

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INTO THE DARKEST CORNER OH ISLAND MO Haynes, Elizabeth 396pp 2012 Todd, Penelope 299pp 2010 When something seems too good to be true, then it This is the story of an isolated quarantine station and usually is. In this case, the ‘something’ is Lee who its community; its dedicated staff and those they on first acquaintance is a charismatic and appealing tend, the sailors and immigrants. It is a place set man. Catherine certainly thinks so, but finds out to apart with its inhabitants balancing passion and hope her detriment the difference between his public and alongside sickness and death. The unusual setting, private faces. A challenging thriller that considers the the evocative descriptions of the island and the horrors of abusive relationships. Compelling reading sympathetically drawn characters give rise to a tender at its best, but the book includes violence and abusive and accomplished novel of colonial New Zealand. sexual content. IT COULD BE YOU MOH McCauley, Sue 199pp 1997 INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN, THE De Robertis, Carolina 424pp 2009 Writer, journalist and screenwriter McCauley’s stories have been brought together from numerous The culture and history of 20th Century Uruguay publications. Ranging from the blackly humorous to is presented through the lives of three women in the infinitely sad, and providing insights into the drama the Firielli family: Pajarita, her daughter Eva and of everyday existence. granddaughter Salome. From humble beginnings to city sophistication, from struggles for freedom and independence to political revolution and turmoil, JAMES MIRANDA BARRY Duncker, Patricia 375pp 1999 their stories reveal the challenges and hardships of life in a changing South America. This compelling saga An elegant exploration of the way gender and identity immerses the reader in what it is to be Uruguayan. shape a life. James Miranda Barry enrols as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a career as a military IRELAND: A NOVEL surgeon. He also achieves fame as a duellist and a Delaney, Frank 480pp 2004 celebrated social figure. Barry was born female, but successfully maintained a male identity for over fifty In 1951, when Ronan O’Mara is nine years old, he years. meets the ageing itinerant Storyteller, who emerges out of a “silver veil” of Irish mist, hoping to trade a yarn for a hot meal. Welcomed inside, the Storyteller JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, THE Fowler, Karen Joy 288pp 2004 begins to tell tales of Ireland’s heroism, intrigue, and bloody grandeur. When Ronan’s mother banishes the A California book club forms to discuss the novels of Storyteller for telling a blasphemous tale, Ronan vows Jane Austen. As the five women and one man discuss to find him. He becomes fascinated by Irish myth Austen’s stance on marriage, social status and love, and legend and discovers his own gift for storytelling. they inevitably reveal intimacies about their own lives. Eventually he sets off traversing Ireland on foot to find A work of fiction and a helpful guide to Jane Austen’s his mentor. works.

IS SHE STILL ALIVE? MO Duder, Tessa 368pp 2008 JANE EYRE Brontë, Charlotte 560pp 1847 A collection of thirteen stories for women who have moved beyond youth and into maturity, who have seen The story of an orphan brought up in an institution. and experienced much of what life has to offer, and She becomes a governess and falls in love with her wear their years with pride. The wonderful, wise and pupil’s father. Classic. witty women she has created will strike a chord with their tales of loves and dreams they have lived and lost, JOURNAL OF DORA DAMAGE, THE OH their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all, their Starling, Belinda 452pp 2007 enduring spirit and often unexpected strength. Is she In Victorian London, when Dora Damage is forced to still alive is the question women of a certain age hear take over her sick husband’s bookbinding business, all too often — in ’s wonderful new stories she finds herself binding expensive volumes of the answer is a resounding yes. pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Her

34 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z charm and spirit carry her through as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT O evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, Cotterill, Colin 270pp 2011 nosy neighbours, and a constant stream of wealthy Introducing Jimm Juree, crime reporter formerly of dilettantes. Gradually Dora is pulled into in an illegal Chiang Mai, now a reluctant chief cook and bottle trade of sex, money, and deceit. washer at her family’s ‘Gulf Bay Lovely Resort and Restaurant’ in the south of Thailand. But there’s no JOURNAL OF MRS PEPYS, THE O resting on her laurels; when the bodies start piling George, Sara 240pp 1998 up, Jimm sees a chance to keep her career on track A fictional account of Elizabeth Pepys, wife of the and moves into crime solving mode, teaming up with diarist, Samuel. The minutiae of daily life, the ups and local policeman Sergeant Phoon. Highly entertaining downs of marriage, and the struggle from poverty of and surprisingly thought-provoking, its light hearted this famous 17th-century household, are set against the approach is well balanced by an intricate plot and huge events of fire and plague. delightfully eccentric characters. The title and chapter headings, courtesy of George Bush, add to the quirky and original style of this exotic whodunnit. JOY LUCK CLUB, THE Tan, Amy 287pp 1989 Novel about Chinese mothers in the US, and their “As a Whodunnit in an exotic setting in rural Thailand, American-born daughters. this book is meant to entertain rather than challenge the intellect. It certainly entertained me.” KEEPING SECRETS O Rosenheim, Andrew 339pp 2006 “The characters range from eccentric to bizarre – and that’s only Jimm’s own family!” Thirty years after having witnessed a brutal murder “At 370 pages, it’s a long action-packed read. on his uncle’s California apple farm, Jack Renoir The perfect book for the holiday suitcase.” makes a living discovering other people’s secrets, while making sure he keeps his own. But when Kate BDS Reviewers Palmer, an English oil consultant, walks into Jack’s San Francisco office, his carefully-constructed life is turned upside down. He agrees to try a new life with KITE RUNNER, THE Kate in England. But with the reappearance of her old Hosseini, Khaled 324pp 2003 boyfriend, Jack is drawn into a murky world he thought Narrated by Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in he had left behind for good. California. He tells the story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear and ruthless evil that KINDNESS OF YOUR NATURE, THE MO transcends politics. Running parallel to this personal Olsson, Linda 216pp 2011 narrative of loss and redemption, is the story of modern Seeking refuge from her early life Afghanistan and of Amir’s relationship with the war- in Europe, Marion Flint leads a torn city of his birth. reclusive existence on a North Island west coast beach. But it is not until KNOWN WORLD, THE she befriends Ika, a vulnerable Jones, Edward P 388pp 2004 and abused child, that she begins Henry Townsend is a former slave. Under the tutelage to confront her own demons. The of his former white owner, Henry works hard and friendship that develops allows both is able to purchase his own land and eventually he Marion and Ika the possibility of acquires more than 30 slaves — a black man owning learning to trust others again. With black slaves. Henry runs his small plantation with its careful handling of complex relationships, this story strong discipline but when he unexpectedly dies, his is a sensitive yet unflinching examination of family widow Caldonia has to carry on. Overwhelmed by dysfunction and abuse. grief, she is unable to cope and chaos results. Winner of: National Book Critics Award, 2004; Pulitzer Prize Fiction, 2004.

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LACUNA, THE Kingsolver, Barbara 527pp 2009 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, THE Diffenbaugh, Vanessa 308pp 2010 An archivist reveals the story of a fictional character, Harrison Shepherd, the son of an American father and Life has not been easy for Victoria Jones. Damaged a Mexican mother, growing up in both countries, and by the foster care system she has graduated from, she whose life becomes entwined with Diego Rivera, his communicates with others and makes sense of her wife Frida Kahlo and their exiled friend Lev Trotsky. world using the Victorian language of flowers. With Against the backdrop of the momentous political an intriguing juxtaposition of the old fashioned and events of the 1930s to the rise of McCarthyism in the contemporary, the author considers the perennial the 1950s, American society’s confusion of paranoia issues of love, belonging and forgiveness in this and conformity is played out through Shepherd’s absorbing and compassionate story. experiences. Combining intensive research, wry humour and perceptive observations, Kingsolver “A thoroughly enjoyable book. Recommended.” provides an absorbing view of this era and a reflection Nelson 051 on the power of words. “Fabulous, we all loved it!!” LAMBS OF GOD Tauranga 036 Day, Marele 263pp 1997 “All of us just loved this book. It’s a geat read Three nuns, living in the isolated, crumbling St Agnes and we highly recommend it.” Monastery, have a surprise visit from Father Ignatius. Nelson 050 The Church’s intentions to make “better” use of the “Light read. Some were surprised it was in the scheme.” real estate, stirs the women to use all their resources to protect a cherished life. Humorous tale by an Auckland 281 Australian author.

LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, A O LARNACHS THE MO Cash, Wiley 335pp 2012 Marshall, Owen 293pp 2011 One Sunday, nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in Based on 19th Century events in Dunedin and horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a Wellington, this is the story of William Larnach, healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. prominent businessman and politician, his third The unimaginable violence that follows must be wife Constance and his youngest son Douglas. The untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past. A relationship that develops between Conny and Dougie Land More Kind Than Home is a spellbinding, heart- shocks the socially constrained society of the time and breaking story about cruelty and innocence, and the ultimately leads to tragedy. Subtly narrated in alternate failure of religion and family to protect a child. It is a voices, and rich with the historical details of colonial novel thick with stories and characters connected by New Zealand, this is a convincing story of love, faith, infidelity and a sense of hope that is both tragic scandal and morality. and unforgettable. LARRY’S PARTY Shields, Carol 339pp 997 LANDINGS M Pattrick, Jenny 316pp 2008 Larry Weller, an ordinary modern man, has always This is the story of the Whanganui River at the viewed his life as a puzzle and this may explain why beginning of the 20th Century; a bustling thoroughfare he is so affected by his visit to the maze at Hampton and lifeblood to the diverse characters living on its Court. The maze motif weaves its way through the . An accident involving one of the tourist boats narrative to the culminating event of Larry’s party at sets into play events that have wider implications age forty-six. Winner of the Orange Prize, 1998. for the community. An easy to read novel providing insight into this period of New Zealand nation LAST OF THE WINE, THE building. Renault, Mary 384pp 1956 The author writes with great authenticity of the decline of , and the year of Socrates and Plato.

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LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE LIFE OF PI, THE Bennett, Alan 199pp 2002 Martel, Yann 319pp 2001 Bennett’s extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness The story of Pi, an unusual boy, brought up in a zoo in of perception have made him a master-storyteller. India. When Pi’s father decides to move the family to In “Father! Father! Burning Bright” he writes with Canada and sell animals to the great zoos of America, tragicomic insight about a son’s vigil at his father’s the ship taking them across the Pacific sinks. Pi finds deathbed where their lifelong battle continues to the himself on a life-raft along with a hyena, an orang- end. “The Laying on of Hands” is a brilliantly funny utan, a zebra, and a Bengal tiger. Winner Man Booker satire, while in “Miss Fozzard Finds her Feet”, a lonely, Prize, 2002. unmarried department store clerk discovers there is more to life than looking after her brother. LIFEBOAT, THE O Rogan, Charlotte 275pp 2012 LET ME SING YOU GENTLE SONGS M When the Empress Alexandra sinks on a transatlantic Olsson, Linda 267pp 2005 voyage in 1914, Grace Winter’s newly privileged life is One bleak March evening, Veronika arrives in a small over before it has really begun. Only recently married Swedish village in pursuit of stillness and solitude. and now most certainly widowed, she must survive Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, her reclusive being in an overcrowded lifeboat where each of the neighbour, who, in the safety of her home, guards 39 survivors will struggle with the daunting question: family secrets and personal tragedy. The two women What are you prepared to do in order to survive? A fast — one young, one old — are drawn together, and moving story that throws up ethical dilemmas that one against a backdrop of changing seasons, they become hopes one never has to face. friends. Set in Sweden and New Zealand. LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, THE Stedman, ML 343pp 2012 LIFE AFTER LIFE O Above all else, Isabel Sherbourne wants a baby. When Atkinson, Kate 352pp 2013 in 1926 a dinghy washes ashore on the isolated West Australian island of Janus Rock where her husband During a snowstorm in the English Tom is the lighthouse keeper, it seems as if all their countryside, a baby is born. But this prayers are answered. That is, until four years later is no ordinary baby: Ursula Todd is when baby Lucy is reunited with her mother and Tom destined to live her life over and over and Isabel must face the devastating consequences again through the first half of the of their actions. With its exquisite descriptions of life 20th century. Following a myriad of on the island and its sensitively portrayed characters, storylines, Ursula’s alternative lives this story engages the reader on all levels leaving them offer a rich tapestry of possibilities pondering the dilemmas of right and wrong and the shaped by personal choice and the power of forgiveness. capriciousness of fate. With its vivid vignettes of English life, particularly during the war years, and its capacity to reflect all that we may aspire to or regret, LIMESTONE M this is an engrossing and interesting read. Farrell, Fiona 240pp 2009 Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art-history conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes “An interesting, ambitious and unique plot.” when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged “Excellent prose. It has incredibly complicated on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in plot-lines with chapters jumping back and forth a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a couple in time and with myriad storylines.” of rotund earthlings, a singer whose song she does “This book contains a rich tapestry of entertaining not understand… Clues lie all around on a labyrinth reading, but it’s not your typical Kate Atkinson book.” of walls – but the final clue lies deep within. This is “A thoroughly engrossing story - the many interesting and a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, well-described characters make this a great read.” love… and limestone. BDS Reviewers

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LITTLE FRIEND, THE LORD OF THE FLIES, THE Tartt, Donna 555pp 2003 Golding, William 248pp 1954 In a small Mississippi town, twelve-year-old Harriet A story of survivors of an air crash on a tropical island. Cleve Dufresnes has grown up in the shadow of her Allows human nature to be observed, while well brother Robin’s murder. Robin’s killer has never brought-up schoolboys descend into savagery when been identified and ten years later, his family are still society’s rules are lost. UK. devastated by the tragedy. One summer, in an attempt to resurrect the happy family she knows only from photographs, Harriet resolves to get revenge on the man she believes murdered her brother. LOST WIFE, THE Richman, Alyson 358pp 2011 LIVING IN THE MANIOTOTO M Frame, Janet 240pp 1979 To stay or to go … Lenka Kohn must Sophisticated novel; more “difficult” than the choose between remaining with her autobiographies. The central character, a writer with family in Prague as the Nazis invade three personalities, journeys from New Zealand to or fleeing with her young husband California to a strange inheritance. Josef to USA. Separated by war, each believes the other dead; Lenka in a concentration camp and Josef in a LOLITA Nabokov, Vladimir 312pp 1955 torpedoed ship. Decades later they unexpectedly encounter one another Tragedy about “the rapture and the tenderness of a at a wedding in New York. Inspired by true events, middle-aged man for a too-young girl”. Eroticism, but this is a profoundly moving love story that reflects with delicacy. Set in the US. on the haunting power of first love and our ability to endure, as well as adding to our knowledge and LONDON: THE NOVEL understanding of the Holocaust. Rutherfurd, Edward 1299pp 1998 A story that follows the River Thames to the heart of London, from Roman times through 16 centuries to “Another ‘died and gone to heaven’ read for me. the Victorian engineers of the Tower Bridge, and the So beautifully written, so moving. I defy any reader to Docklands developments of today. remain dry-eyed at some of the intense love memories.” “It is an enchanting, very moving love story.” LONG, LONG WAY, A “I loved the ‘second chance’ themes of this book Barry, Sebastian 304pp 2005 and the fact that we can love again.” The story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his “I loved this book and bawled my eyes out!” native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western BDS Reviewers Front. Caught between the catastrophic violence he encounters there and the growing political tension at home over Irish independence, Willie finds himself confronting unbearable choices regarding family, patriotism, and the devotion he feels towards his regiment. LOTTERY Wood, Patricia 310pp 2007 LONG SONG, THE Perry L. Crandall (“L” for Lucky) isn’t retarded – he’ll Levy, Andrea 312pp 2010 tell you so. His beloved Gram tells him being slow July, a mulatto house slave narrates the story of isn’t a bad thing; he’ll get where he needs to go in his her tumultuous life in 19th Century Jamaica. It is own time. When his life is radically changed by two a turbulent period featuring the Baptist revolts and events: the death of his grandmother and his winning eventually the emancipation of slaves. A complex and $12 million, it’s Perry’s relatives – who’d only just poignant novel laying bare the tyranny of slavery with cheated him out of the inheritance he was due on his surprising charm and humour. grandmother’s death – who are holding out their hands for the money.

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LOVE LOWER RIVER, THE Morrison, Toni 202pp 2003 Theroux, Paul 323pp 2012 Many women are obsessed with Bill Cosey, owner Ellis Hock, unhappy and disenchanted with his life in of the Cosey Hotel and Resort on the US East Coast. small town USA, resolves to return to the one place More than just being the owner, he shapes their in the world where he remembers being happy; the yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian and village of Malabo in the Lower River area of Malawi. friend. Even after his death, he dominates their lives. He has high hope of regaining his equanimity, but this is a different Africa from the one he encountered LOVE AND MONEY M decades earlier as a Peace Corps volunteer, an Africa McGee, Greg 352pp 2012 that will bring him to the very brink. Tackling universal questions of good and evil and highlighting the clash Those were the days … 1980s New Zealand … between the First World and the Third, this is a book , the boom and bust sharemarket and the guaranteed to seize and challenge the reader with its first rugby world cup. The feckless Michael McGuire powerful writing and insider’s view of contemporary has fallen on hard times needing to be propped up Africa. by his three ex-wives and various offspring. With the dizzying events of the era, a protagonist used to leaving chaos in his wake, and acute observations of the New Zealand lifestyle, this is an entertaining and nostalgic LUMINARIES, THE OM read. [Small font.] Catton, Eleanor 832pp 2013 It is 1866 and Walter Moody has LOVE AND VERTIGO O Teo, Hsu-Ming 300pp 2000 come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night The story of Grace Tay, a young woman of Chinese of his arrival, he stumbles across a descent, whose family came from Singapore. Grace tense gathering of twelve local men, has grown up in Sydney, but is drawn back to Singapore who have met in secret to discuss a to explore her family’s origins and the reason for her series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy mother’s suicide, while on holiday there. Evokes the man has vanished, a whore has tried life, traditions and tastes of a Chinese family. to end her life, and an enormous sum of money has been discovered in LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn Mitford, Nancy 437pp 1949 into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night Also contains The Pursuit of Love. A delicious exposé sky. [Taken from the book cover - Victoria University of the English upper crust. Aristocratic England in its Press.] Winner of the Man Booker Prize. [This book full decadence. (Small print.) is read over two months - groups on a full programme would receive only 9 books for the year.] LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN, THE Munro, Alice 340pp 1998 “Finely drawn characters living in a complex plot. Munro’s ninth collection of short stories, set in western A rewarding read.” Canada. The subject matter is classic Munro: secrets, “A beautifully crafted book, with an enjoyably love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives. But, as is complex and unfolding plot.” usual, the path she takes is anything but ordinary. “I enjoyed the book, but found it needed concentration to distinguish between the various characters.” LOVING WAYS M Gee, Maurice 214pp 1996 “Recommended at several levels, including historical significance, human interest, and very good writing.” A novel set in Nelson. Three siblings come together “Would I recommend it? Yes, but only to readers after thirty years’ separation around the sickbed of their willing to persevere. It pays off eventually.” father. About characters who want or who lack love. Some violence may disturb. BDS Reviewers

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LUMINOUS MH MADAME BOVARY Tawhai, Alice 162pp 2007 Flaubert, Gustave 274pp 1856 In this collection of 25 short stories of contemporary Describes the fall of Emma Bovary into adultery, debt, New Zealand, light is shed on the world inhabited by and eventual death. Classic of World Literature. its disadvantaged characters. Gritty and direct in style and content. MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND Simonson, Helen 457pp 2010 LUCKY BASTARD M Village politics, family disputes, property developers, Wells, Peter 478pp 2007 religious conflict, hunting, a golf club and a good How do you make sense of the past when it suddenly dollop of snobbery, the quintessential English village of explodes into the present? In post-war Japan, Eric Edgecombe St Mary has it all. At the heart of the story Keeling must investigate an alleged war crime, but do is retired widower Major Pettigrew and his developing his actions constitute a further crime? In New Zealand, relationship with Mrs Ali, the Pakistani village half a century later, this is the question that confronts shopkeeper. A light hearted and entertaining story with his two children. They have grown up with a difficult colourful characters and an underlying examination of father who was traumatised by his past as a prisoner of stereotypes and cultural expectations. war. Was he a war hero, or guilty of an unscrupulous act of revenge? As their father loses his hold on reality, MAN IN THE SHED, THE M they must sift through the facts and fictions of what Jones, Lloyd 265pp 2009 really happened and in the process they discover a Written from 1991-2006, this collection of fourteen short new sense of family. stories focuses on family and relationships, achieving a haunting commentary on human behaviour. With its MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD excellent sense of place, it is possible to recognise familiar Dean, Debra 229pp 2006 locations and in turn find yourself questioning what you are seeing and believing. Easy to read yet thought provoking Marina Buriakov, an 82-year-old Russian émigré, and clever. is preparing for her granddaughter’s wedding near Seattle, while fighting a battle against Alzheimer’s. MANGO’S KISS, THE M Disappearing into the memory of her time as a Wendt, Albert 463pp 2003 young Hermitage Museum guide, Marina relives the siege of Leningrad and how museum staff members Life in colonial Samoa in the 1880s is a time of change, were instructed to remove the museum’s priceless as old structures and beliefs conflict with the modern, masterpieces for safekeeping. During the siege, secular world. We follow Peleiupe, the daughter of a young Marina constructs a mental version of the high-born and respected pastor, through the following museum, committing to memory the paintings, and forty years of passion, struggles and tension, as her their placement. Sixty years later, this “memory family is increasingly confronted by the modern world. palace” is all Marina has left. MAP OF GLASS, THE “All loved it. Best discussion we’ve had in months.” Urquhart, Jane 371pp 2005 Tauranga 011 Jerome is a young artist spending a few months on an “A great read, thoroughly enjoyed. The book moved island in Lake Ontario. But his idyll is shattered when from the present, to the past and back to the present he discovers a man frozen in the ice near the shore. in a clever way making it easy to understand.” One year later Sylvia, the dead man’s lover, appears at his studio driven by the need to recount her story to the Tauranga 038 stranger who discovered him. A tender and haunting “A favourite for our group. Wonderful language. story unfolds which stretches long and wide, a story Highly recommended.” that begins with Sylvia’s childhood and mysterious Nelson 040 illness and ends with her lover’s tragic death. “We all enjoyed the way it was written relating past to present. It dealt with issues very sensitively.” 004

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MANSFIELD M MASTER BUTCHER’S SINGING CLUB, THE Stead, CK 245pp 2004 Erdrich, Louise 388pp 2003 A fictional account of three years in the life of When Fidelis Waldvogel, World War I veteran, returns Katherine Mansfield, from 1915 to 1918, against the from war, he finds and marries the pregnant lover of backdrop of WWI. It explores her loves and desire to his best friend who was killed in action. Seeking to write the “new kind of fiction”. Friendships with TS make a good life for Eva and her son, Fidelis journeys Eliot, Bertrand Russell, DH Lawrence and others are to the United States and settles down in Argus, North portrayed, as well as her erratic relationship with John Dakota to the life of a butcher. Erdrich’s novel traces Middleton-Murray. Fidelis’s life with Eva and their four sons as it entangles with that of the charismatic Delphine Watzka in an MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS exploration of love, loss, sacrifice, and strength. Aslam, Nadeem 369pp 2004 MATTER OF PARIHAKA, THE In an unnamed English town, Jugnu and his lover MO Bohan, Edmund 231pp 2000 Chanda have disappeared mysteriously. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and The third Inspector O’Rorke novel set in colonial then, on a snow-covered January morning, Chanda’s New Zealand. The invasion and destruction of Te brothers are arrested for murder. Maps for Lost Lovers Whiti’s community of Parihaka in 1881, prompts an opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, investigation into police brutality. A skillfully woven community, nationality and religion. blend of fact and fiction, and an evocatively told tale of political and personal intrigue. MAP OF LOVE, THE Soueif, Ahdaf 529pp 1999 ME BEFORE YOU O Moyes, Jojo 503pp 2012 A century after one of her forebears married into an Egyptian family, Isabel Parkman returns to Egypt, after Lou Clark, working class ex-shop assistant and Will falling in love with an Egyptian in New York. A story- Traynor an ex-corporate lawyer are an unlikely pair. within-a-story that explores interracial love, British Under normal circumstances they would never have colonial history, and the effects of imperialism in a met but Will is a quadriplegic in need of a carer and third-world country. Shortlisted Booker Prize, 1999. Lou fits the bill. This is their story: two young people grappling with the challenges that follow tragedy. MARCH Mesmerising, poignant but never puerile, this book Brooks, Geraldine 346pp 2005 examines many serious issues. Easy to read, hard to stop thinking about. Set during the American Civil War and using the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Alcott’s father. March tells the story of John March, Golden, Arthur 434pp 1997 the absent father in Little Women. In Brooks’ telling, March is portrayed as an abolitionist and idealistic The geisha, Sayuri, narrates the tale of her life; her chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929, the in himself, and in the Union cause. He learns that his auction of her mizuage (virginity) as a teenager, and side, too, is capable of barbarism and racism. Sick and her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress discouraged, he returns to his little women who have of the patron of her dreams. Golden captures a vivid, grown strong in his absence. now-vanished world in Japanese culture.

MASTER, THE MEMORY M Tóibín, Colm 359pp 2004 Mahy, Margaret 234pp 1987 Tóibín turns a lifelong obsession with writer Henry On the fifth anniversary of his sister’s death, nineteen- James into a scrupulously researched and artfully year-old Jonny Dart is still troubled by guilt and an rendered biographical novel. The narrator takes us imperfect memory of the accident that took her life. He inside the mind of James, focusing on his middle years goes searching for the only other witness to the fatal around 1890 when he went from failure to renown. event, but instead of finding the answers he is looking This book is a fictional study based on biographical for, he finds Sophie, in whose house past and present materials, and family accounts. merge for both of them. A “problem” teenager and a lady suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease are the heroes.

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MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, THE MISS CHOPSTICKS Edwards, Kim 401pp 2005 Xinran 257pp 2007 On a winter night in 1964, Dr David Henry is forced The Li sisters don’t have much education, but one by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a first, is perfectly healthy. Yet, when his daughter is failure because she hasn’t managed to produce a son, born, he notices immediately that she has Down’s and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Syndrome. He makes a split-second decision and asks When circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, opens their eyes. And when the money they earn starts instead disappears into another city to raise the child arriving back at the village, their father is forced to herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter recognise that daughters are not so dispensable after of a century in which these two families, ignorant of all. each other, are yet bound by that fateful decision. MISS GARNET’S ANGEL MEMORY OF RUNNING, THE O Vickers, Salley 342pp 2000 MacLarty, Ron 406pp 2005 When Julia Garnet is touched by the spirit of the Smithson (“Smithy”) Ide is an overweight, friendless, Archangel Raphael depicted in the paintings she chain-smoking, and hard-drinking 43 year old. His discovers in a local Venetian church, her cautious life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his life begins an unexpected transformation. “…like the parents and long-lost sister within a week. To escape shifting sea-light of Venice, nothing here is quite as it his grief, drunk and wearing a suit, and with no money, seems”. he gets on his bike and begins to pedal west. Along the way, he flashes back to his past and the hardships of MISS WEBSTER AND CHÉRIF O his beloved sister’s schizophrenia, while his dejection Duncker, Patricia 244pp 2007 encourages strangers to share their life stories with him. Miss Webster and Chérif tells the story of Elizabeth Webster, a single woman pushing seventy. Forced out MIDDLEMARCH Eliot, George 896pp 1872 of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue on everyone in the English village of Blessington. To Novel about Dorothea, a woman of intelligence, recover from a sudden illness, she travels to North limited by a narrow society. English classic. Africa where she has a brush with terrorism. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home, her MIDDLESEX doorbell rings, and she finds on her doorstep a Eugenides, Jeffrey 529pp 2002 beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. The story of Calliope Stephanides’ transformation into Cal begins, “I was born twice: first as a baby girl ... in MISTAKE, THE James, Wendy 278pp 2012 January of 1960; and then again as a teenage boy ... in August of 1974.” Middlesex spans three generations, Jodie Garrow has come a long way: 25 years ago she crosses two continents, from a small Greek village was single, pregnant and desperate; now she is married to the streets of Detroit, covers historical events and to a successful lawyer and the mother of two teenagers. reveals family secrets as Cal sets out to discover himself Following a chance encounter with a face from by tracing the story of his family. the past, her life starts to unravel and she becomes subject to the court of public opinion and trial by MISOGYNIST, THE O media. Examining family, the power of the media, Paul Read, Piers 294pp 2010 and the judgements we make of one another, this is a provocative and compelling story. Geoffrey Jomier spends a lot of time cataloguing his past, creating order out of chaos. Time is something he has plenty of. Retired, divorced and although cynical, he still finds himself drawn into a new relationship. But it is a crisis involving his daughter that is the catalyst for him to re-examine his life and attempt a different future. A clever and acerbic snapshot of life in 21st Century London.

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MISTER PIP MO MORNINGS IN JENIN Jones, Lloyd 220pp 2006 Abulhawa, Susan 331pp 2010 Mister Pip is set during Papua New Guinea’s blockade Palestine 1948. The Abulheja family are forcibly of Bougainville in the 1990s. When the school is removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and closed in a remote village, Mr Watts takes over its sent to live in a refugee camp in Jenin. Through Amal, running. He resorts to reading Great Expectations the bright granddaughter of the patriarch, we witness aloud to his students, among them the young Matilda. the stories of her brothers: one, a stolen boy who The 19th century world of Dickens is so different from becomes an Israeli soldier; the other who in sacrificing Matilda’s own, but it helps her understand her own everything for the Palestinian cause will become his existence better. When the copy of Great Expectations enemy. Amal’s own dramatic story threads its way goes missing, Mr Watts encourages the children to through six decades of Israeli-Palestinian tension: remember fragments of the story and tell them to the it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, class. And so the original story is reconstructed from parenthood, and finally the need to share history with the children’s memories. Man Booker Shortlist, 2007; her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 2007; Montana Book Award for Fiction, 2007. MORTMAIN MO Corbalis, Judy 261pp 2007 MOBY DICK Melville, Herman 480pp 1851 All seems calm in Castleton, New Zealand, but its small-town respectability hides guilty secrets and a The classic American story of the white whale and the tumult of rebellion. This is the story of three families, evil seaman. each dominated by a patriarch: the snobbish lawyer; the eccentric aristocrat and the Maori chief who MOLOKA’I meet to play three-handed chess. Their children and Brennert, Alan 384pp 2003 grandchildren begin to recognise that their seemingly structured, ordered society is slowly disintegrating. When Rachel Kalama is seven, she is discovered to Which of them will escape and fulfil their dreams? have leprosy and is quarantined in a leprosy settlement And why is someone with murderous intent prowling on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i. This is the story of the town? her life; from the moment she is taken from her family (never to live with them again), to her eventual cure as an adult and beyond. Not only does it chronicle the MR ALLBONES’ FERRETS M Farrell, Fiona 217pp 2007 experience of an isolated community celebrating life while over-shadowed by disease, but also the changes A young man out poaching. A beautiful maiden in in the management of leprosy. Based on extensive a mysterious house. A perilous voyage to distant research, it is an inspiring story revealing a fascinating islands. All the ingredients of a highly coloured period of early 20th Century history. Victorian romance are played out in the context of the great colonial experiment. Exotic species travelled MONTANA 1948 back to stock the collections of Europe while useful Watson, Larry 175pp 1995 species were dispatched to found new colonies in the antipodes. From a factual base, Fiona Farrell spins a The events of one cataclysmic summer will forever delicate, satirical fantasy about human folly and the alter 12 year-old David Hayden’s life, son of the perils of disturbing the subtle balance of nature. town’s sheriff. The revelations of the family’s Sioux housekeeper form the heart of the story. US. MR DARWIN’S SHOOTER MacDonald, Roger 365pp 2000 MORAL HAZARD Jennings, Kate 175pp 2002 A story based on the spiritual conflict that existed between Charles Darwin and his little-known field Liberal feminist, Cath, is forced to take a job as a assistant (or shooter), Sym Covington. The discoveries financial speech-writer for a conservative Wall Street on the voyage of the “Beagle” seriously test Covington’s firm to support her husband who is ill with Alzheimer’s faith in creationism and his understanding of biblical Disease. By day, she deals with the world of high truth. Australian author. finance; by night, she has to watch the disintegration of the man she loves.

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MR ROSENBLUM’S LIST MURDER AT MANSFIELD PARK O Solomons, Natasha 311pp 2010 Shepherd, Lynn 343pp 2010 In 1937 when the Rosenblum family flee Germany they The much-loved and familiar names of Jane Austen’s are given a pamphlet, While you are in England: Helpful Mansfield Park are all present: Fanny Price, the Information and Friendly Guidance for every Refugee. Bertrams, the Norrisses, the Grants, the Crawfords. And so begins Jack Rosenblum’s list of what it takes However, with a reshuffling of characters, personalities to be a perfect English gentleman. Diligently working and plot and the addition of a body or two, this novel his way through the list he is stumped by his final goal continues the magic of Mansfield Park, albeit with a of joining a golf club. Undaunted by rejection he twist. An engrossing and intriguing mystery worthy of sets out to build his own golf course in Dorset. This Jane Austen aficionados or those yet to be converted. deceptively simple story deals with the big issues of cultural identity, assimilation and prejudice. A warm MUSIC AND SILENCE and entertaining read with serious undertones. Tremain, Rose 454pp 1999 An English lutenist joins King Christian IV’s royal MRS COOK orchestra in 1629. They constitute the finest Day, Marele 368pp 2002 musicians of Europe, but they must play in a cold Elizabeth Batts was married to Captain James Cook wine cellar where the music is piped up to the state for 14 years with only an estimated four of those rooms. Chronicles the illusions and delusions of this years spent together. Day uses a mix of research and household over the period of a year. documents, poetic licence and imagination to suggest what Elizabeth’s life might have been during James’s MY NAME WAS JUDAS M voyages, and then following his death. Her life is one Stead, CK 244pp 2006 of courage, hardship and survival. Judas’ name is synonymous with betrayal, but is that how he saw it himself? Forty years after the death of MRS DALLOWAY Jesus, Judas tells the story as he remembers it. Looking Woolf, Virginia 198pp 1925 back on his childhood and youth, he recalls his It is a summer’s day in London and Clarissa Dalloway, friendship with Jesus; their schooling together; their fashionable and wealthy society hostess, prepares for a families; the people who would go on to be disciples party. Woolf captures the inner world of Mrs Dalloway and and followers; their journeys, and their dealings with of those whose lives are interwoven with hers, including the powers of Rome and the Temple, against the richly that of shell-shocked WWI veteran, Septimus Smith. painted backdrop of ancient Palestine.

MY SISTER’S KEEPER MUDBOUND O Picoult, Jodi 423pp 2004 Jordan, Hillary 324pp 2008 Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13 The McAllan and Jackson families inhabit the same she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions patch of southern soil, a cotton farm in the Mississippi and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow Delta. White landowners and black share croppers fight the leukemia that has plagued her since are run of the mill but not so the friendship between childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow Jamie McAllan and Ronsel Jackson returning home match for Kate — a life and role that she has never from World War Two. Narrated by the six main questioned … until now. characters, this story is a page turner reminding us of what happens when prejudice and bigotry have their MY YEAR OF MEAT way. Winner of the 2006 Bellwether Prize for Fiction. Ozeki, Ruth L 431pp 1998 “We loved the book and the questions.” Jane, a young documentary film-maker, is involved in Coatesville 001 the production of a series, My American Wife, about red “Excellent book, enjoyed by all - thought provoking.” meat. The series is broadcast on Japanese television, and sponsored by a US lobby group looking for new markets. Marton 002 The novel deals with the cross-pollination of people and “An excellent book - a great fictional social history.” values, toxicity in meat, synthetic oestrogens, camera Coromandel 003 angles, and issues to do with media perspectives and reliability. An exposé with humour.

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NAMES OF THINGS, THE O NIGHT LETTERS O Wood, John Colman 261pp 2012 Dessaix, Robert 276pp 1996 Reluctantly accompanying her husband as he studies An Australian man travels Switzerland and Italy after a nomadic tribe, the anthropologist’s wife does not being diagnosed as HIV-positive. His letters home to want to be in north east Africa. But it is not until years a friend reflect on questions of morality, seduction and later that the consequences of her acquiescence will the search for paradise. Fictional travel writing. become tragically apparent. So much so, that he must return to the wilderness of the desert to come NIGHTS IN THE GARDEN OF SPAIN M to terms with what has happened. Elegantly written Ihimaera, Witi 303pp 1995 and thoughtfully conceived, this story is a sensitive exploration of love and grief that benefits from the Ihimaera explores the dilemmas of the minority gay authority the author, who is an anthropologist, brings culture, and the challenges that must be faced when to these subjects. one partner opts out of marriage. Some content may disturb. NAMESAKE, THE Lahiri, Jhumpa 291pp 2004 NIGHTWOODS Frazier, Charles 259pp 2011 Gogol is named after his father’s favourite author. But, growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, The tranquillity of Luce’s reclusive life as caretaker of an the boy starts to detest the awkward name and itches to abandoned lodge in the Appalachians is shattered with cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. the arrival of her niece and nephew. Orphaned when Determined to live a life far removed from that of his their mother (Luce’s sister) is murdered, they bring with parents, Gogol sets off on his own path, only to discover them, not only their traumatic past, but in pursuit, Bud, that the search for identity depends on much more than their mother’s killer. Engrossing and gripping, this is a name. story-telling at its best: damaged characters, spectacular landscapes and the best and worst of human nature. NERVOUS CONDITIONS Dangarembga, Tsitsi 204pp 1988 NO GREAT MISCHIEF MacLeod, Alistair 262pp 2001 Growing up in rural Zimbabwe, Tamba has an all- consuming desire for education. Provides an insight into Canadian writer MacLeod says: “In many ways [the the often little-known lives of indigenous people, and the book] is about the loss of a way of being.” A tale that effects of colonisation on them. frequently switches from the folkloric past of a Celtic immigrant family forced from the Scottish Highlands in 1779 to that of the present narrator, Alexander NEVER LET ME GO MacDonald, a Nova Scotia descendant. Ishiguro, Kazuo 282pp 2005

As a child, Kathy H attends Hailsham, a boarding NOAH’S COMPASS school in the secluded English countryside. It is a Tyler, Anne 277pp 2009 place of rigid and mysterious rules. Now, at 31, Kathy has assumed the position for which she was Liam Pennywell is untethered. At sixty, he has lost trained long ago, and she has put the memories of her his job, downsizing to manage the change in his Hailsham days out of her mind. When she is thrown circumstances. In the search to regain his memory together with two of her old school friends, she begins following an assault in his new home, he reflects on to relive experiences, and her memories reveal that the his life; of mistakes made and opportunities missed. ostensibly pastoral and pleasant Hailsham harboured As he reconnects with those around him, he is able to dark and mysterious secrets. contemplate a different future. Well defined characters and the acute observations of domestic detail take the ordinariness of a life, transforming it into a story that is NICE WORK both poignant and fascinating. Lodge, David 384pp 1989 UK novel, exploring the English class society of our days — and perhaps it is not limited to England? A humorous, satirical writer.

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NOT UNTRUE AND NOT UNKIND O own lives. The result is a vivid portrait of marriage O’Loughlin, Ed 175pp 2009 and family, and the conflict between family, and the A newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. political and the personal, as well as people’s affinity One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a for self-deception. dossier on Cartwright’s desk. And in the dossier Owen finds a photograph, which brings him back to a dusty ON CANAAN’S SIDE O road in Africa and to the woman he once loved …Not Barry, Sebastian 256pp 2012 Untrue and Not Unkind is Owen’s story – a gripping Arriving in America at the end of WW1 with Irish story of friendship, rivalry and guilt amongst a group of history snapping at her heels, Lilly Bere has quite reporters and photographers covering Africa’s wars. a story to tell. Along with her mensfolk, she must navigate life in a country that over the decades OLD FILTH that follow will have its own wars to contend with. Gardam, Jane 260pp 2004 Beautifully narrated with poignant characters and its Sir Edward Feathers, known as Filth (an acronym broad sweep of 20th century history, this fictional for Failed in London, Try Hong Kong), is a retired memoir is a book to savour. international lawyer and judge. Recently widowed, he is left to contemplate his long marriage, the moral OTHER HAND, THE O contradictions of his career, and the passionate hatred Cleave, Chris 374pp 2008 he harbours for his next-door neighbour. He keeps A dramatic encounter on a Nigerian beach has returning to the trauma of his childhood as a “Raj long-lasting ramifications for Little Bee, a Nigerian orphan”, one of the countless colonial children sent teenager, and a holidaying English family. From oil- away from their parents to be educated back “home” in related conflict in Nigeria to the treatment of refugees England. in Britain, this is a story of moral dilemmas and the collision of different world views. With its balance of OLD SCHOOL humour and tragedy, it is both a heartrending and a Wolff, Tobias 195pp 2004 satisfying contemporary novel that examines the way Narrated by a scholarship student at a prestigious different people see the world. Also published as Little New England prep school in the early 1960s. The Bee. school has a tradition of inviting literary stars to judge a contest of pupils’ writing, the winner being granted ON CHESIL BEACH a private audience with the literary star. The narrator McEwan, Ian 166pp 2007 is determined to meet with Ernest Hemingway. In his It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents fervent desire to be chosen, the narrator “borrows” an married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset idea and reveals a secret about his heritage that he has coast. At dinner, they struggle to suppress their carefully hidden. He wins, but the results of the story’s private fears of the wedding night to come — but for publication are disastrous and his life is changed forever. different reasons. Edward wants sex, Florence is sure she doesn’t. Locked in their inhibitions and unable OLIVER TWIST to discuss their fears and needs, the situation is both Dickens, Charles 414pp 1838 miniature and enormous, dire and pathetic, tender and One of the great novels of social concern, depicting irrevocable. the world of poverty and crime in the work-houses of London. Colourful and entertaining. ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 143pp 1963 ON BEAUTY This old favourite in a new Penguin jacket shook Russia Smith, Zadie 446pp 2005 and the world when it first appeared. It provides a In a 21st-century update of Howard’s End, art historian brutal and shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Howard Belsey, a transplanted Englishman married Russians under Stalin. Reading this book, one enters to an African-American woman, returns to London a world of incarceration, brutality, manual labour, to prevent his son from marrying the daughter and freezing cold – and participate in the struggle of of his academic rival. In the meantime, Belsey’s men to survive the terrible rigours of nature, and the other children, Zora and Levi, are each seeking the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions commitments and identities that will define their of life.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Márquez, Gabriel García 432pp 1967 ORCHARDIST, THE Coplin, Amanda 426pp 2012 Epic story of a South American family in a town built in the jungle. A blend of political reality and magic The rhythms of William Talmadge’s realism. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature isolated orchard are irrevocably in 1982. altered by the arrival of two pregnant teenagers, sisters Della and Jane, OPIUM CLERK, THE on the run from a brothel. A gentle Basu, Kunal 313pp 2001 and reclusive man, William is determined to save the girls from the This novel spans two generations and several decades cruel hand that life has dealt them. at the end of the late 19th century, and traces the But with an irate brothel owner hot opium trade from the fields of India to the smoky dens on their heels, William’s willingness to disrupt his of the Chinese treaty ports. Hiran, a high-caste Indian ordered existence cannot prevent the approaching who breaks with Brahmin tradition to become a clerk tragedy but rather transform it. From its evocative in a British auction house trading in opium, finds setting in early 20th Century Washington State himself an unwitting pawn in the British struggle with through to its beautifully descriptive language, this the Chinese for control of the opium trade. is a captivating and haunting story of love, loss and what constitutes family. OPPORTUNITY M Grimshaw, Charlotte 286pp 2007 “The writing in this book is compelling – it is A collection of stories forming a series that can be read beautifully told and the characters are drawn so separately, but contributing to a unified whole. A man that you really feel their pain and yearning.” confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian “A beautiful book – I was captivated from page one. encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary The writing put me in mind of Kingsolver sometimes.” uncovers her boss’s secret shame. And in a house in Auckland, an elderly woman is writing the last book of “It is hypnotic and very difficult to put it down.” her life, one which, she says, contains all of her crimes. “The story is haunting, and when bad things happen they Opportunity is “a novel with a large cast of characters appear with little warning leaving the reader shocked.” where each story stands by itself, and at the same time, BDS Reviewers adds itself to the larger one”. A celebration of the subtleties of human impulse.

ORACLE NIGHT Auster, Paul 207pp 2004 ORLANDO Woolf, Virginia 206pp 1928 While recovering from a near-fatal illness, writer Sidney Orr purchases a blue notebook from a The hero lives through four centuries and many neighbourhood stationery shop. He feels compelled disguises. The story “stands history on its head”. to write about a man who walks away from his Readers would benefit from reading Portrait of a comfortable, staid life after a brush with death. Parallel Marriage by Nigel Nicolson for some background on tales of his wife, a famous writer and family friend, the Bloomsbury group of which Woolf was a member. and his drug-addicted son, as well as a World War II veteran, Ed Victory, preoccupy and divert the reader, ORYX AND CRAKE creating a multi-layered, dreamlike quality. Atwood, Margaret 436pp 2003 Pigs might not fly, but they are strangely altered. Earth ORACLES AND MIRACLES M has been left devastated by an ecological and scientific Eldred-Grigg, Stevan 261pp 1987 disaster, leaving in its wake a nightmarish world. The A novel written by a historian about working-class narrator, who calls himself Snowman, takes a journey women in Christchurch in the 1930s and 1940s. back into his own past and back to the high-tech bubble dome, where the Paradise Project unfolded and the world came to grief. How did everything fall apart so quickly?

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OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, THE PARIS WIFE, THE O Lawson, Mary 275pp 2006 McLain, Paula 392pp 2010 Set against the backdrop of northern Ontario’s haunting 1920s Jazz Age Paris; a glittering and golden city, home landscapes, The Other Side of the Bridge opens with to Ernest Hemingway and his first bride Hayley. Amidst an unforgettable image of Arthur and Jake Dunn, two the energy and passion of the expatriate community brothers whose jealousies will take them beyond the with its cast of famous names (Fitzgerald, Stein, Pound edge of reason, to a deadly point of no return. The and more), Ernest establishes himself as a literary force sons of a farmer, growing up in the 1930s when a to be reckoned with. But all too soon domesticity and beautiful young woman named Laura moves into their ambition are at odds, and as they say, the rest is history. community, she unwittingly propels their sibling rivalry Told from Hayley’s viewpoint, this is an imagined to its breaking point. version of real life events that delivers a love story set in an intoxicating time and place and portrays a ’S SHORT STORIES, THE BEST OF marriage of an unlikely couple. Marshall, Owen 421pp 1997 M

Themes of marriage, families, and provincial town life PARTIAL HISTORY OF LOST CAUSES, A with its loners and misfits, its underdogs and losers, Dubois, Jennifer 369pp 2012 are set into focus in this collection of sixty-seven short stories by one of our finest short story writers. It seems an unlikely connection: the Russian world chess champion turned politician Aleksandr OWLS DO CRY M Frame, Janet 173pp 1961 Bezetov and the young American English lecturer Irina Ellison. The Frame’s first novel. The story of the loss of imagination tenuous link can be traced back and innocence in the bleak world of small-town New to Irina’s father who has died of Zealand. Poignant literature. Huntingdon’s disease. With the prospect of a similar fate awaiting PAINTED DRUM, THE her, Irina is searching … for something … and Erdrich, Louise 277pp 2005 following up on her father’s previous correspondence Native American antiquities specialist, Faye Travers, with Aleksandr and signing on as a worker in his stumbles onto a ceremonial drum when she handles campaign against Putin, becomes the purpose that the estate of John Jewett Tatro whose grandfather was she needs in her life. Encompassing the changes in an agent at the Ojibwe reservation. Under the drum’s Russian society over the last thirty years, this is a gritty spell, she secrets it away and eventually repatriates insightful story interweaving personal tragedy, chess it to the Ojibwe reservation on the northern plains and a culture on the move. [Small font] — the home of her grandmother. Weaving many threads, Erdrich details the multigenerational history “I really enjoyed this book, it was intelligently written surrounding the drum. and I look forward to another book by the author.”

PAINTER, THE “An interesting love story and journey to find oneself set against the backdrop of Russian history.” Davenport, Will 410pp 2003 “This is a cleverly constructed piece of writing. Dubois Parallel stories of frustrated passion. In 1662, gives excellent insights into the social and political Rembrandt accidentally stows away on a ship to mores of Russia and I think that is its best feature.” Hull. To pay for his passage, he must paint a portrait BDS Reviewers of the captain and his beautiful wife, Amelia. In contemporary times, Amy Dale, an aspiring painter, discovers their secrets in a journal written by her ancestor, Amelia, and she too finds herself falling in PASSAGE TO INDIA, A love. A first-hand account of Rembrandt’s work. Forster, EM 317pp 1924 Described as one of the best written novels in English in the 20th century. An early insight into difficult race relations.

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PAUA TOWER, THE M PEPPERED MOTH, THE Atkinson, Coral 312pp 2006 Drabble, Margaret 392pp 2000 Set in a central North Island town during the An account of four generations of a family that has its Depression, The Paua Tower explores the relationship 19th Century roots in a South Yorkshire mining town. of a group of people struggling to survive and make Through adaptation, the image of the ever-darkening sense of a bitter time. It is the story of Vic Cowan, an peppered moth reflects both Bessie Bawtry and her unemployed activist, and Stella Morgan, the sweetheart granddaughter’s varying abilities to adapt to their own who must save herself. It also tells of Jack Baldwin, the circumstances. A moving portrait of four generations. disabled bank manager who has visions, and Roland Crawford, the doubting clergyman. Faith is lost and PERFECTLY GOOD MAN, A O found; corruption is rife and innocence destroyed, but Gale, Patrick 404pp 2012 through it all, love blossoms and hope endures. An accident on the rugby field leaves 20 year old Lenny Barnes paralysed and desperate … desperate PEACE LIKE A RIVER enough to involve the local Anglican priest Barnaby Enger, Leif 311pp 2001 Johnson. Barnaby is a man known in his Cornish On occasion as an asthmatic, 11 year old Reuben Land parish for trying to do what is right, and once again may struggle to breathe, but he has never hesitated to he lives up to his reputation. But in the furore that believe in his father’s ability to perform miracles. And follows, Barnaby’s past, present and future are under it is a miracle the family needs: older brother Davy the microscope. This is an engaging novel which treats has escaped from jail and is on the run with the family its wide cast of characters generously as they wrestle in hot pursuit. Set in a wintery 1960s Mid-West, this with issues of faith, love and morality. story is a adventure that brings together family, faith and miracles and delivers a gripping and uplifting yarn. PERFUME COLLECTOR, THE PEACHES FOR MONSIEUR LE CURÉ O Tessaro, Kathleen 456pp 2013 Harris, Joanne 453pp 2012 The first time young Englishwoman The Rocher family are back in town, Grace Munroe comes across the that is, the Lansequenet of Chocolat name Eva d’Orsay is in 1955 when fame in the south west of France. she finds herself the beneficiary of Vianne and daughters Anouk and her substantial fortune. Grace’s Rosette discover that some things quest to discover why she is to have moved on. Not only is there receive such an inheritance not now a well-established Moslem only changes the course of her own community on the other side of the life but reveals Eva’s surprising and river, but Father Francis, Vianne’s old upwardly mobile story: from 1920s nemesis, is a changed man. Bursting with the charm New York as a hotel maid, to Monte Carlo with all of of the French countryside and the intrigues of a village its glitz and glamour, and on to the seductive realm undergoing change, this is an enchanting story with a of French perfumeries. With a multilayered plot and feel good factor, but with plenty to discuss. strong female characters this book delivers a heady story of satisfying emotional intensity amidst an PEDRO PARAMO intoxicating world of style and high fashion. Rulfo, Juan 124pp 1995 “I was drawn into the story and absorbed with it all Juan Preciado has promised his dying mother that he the way through. It’s well-written, tightly constructed will visit Comala, her hometown, and search for his and has an interesting plot.” father. He expects a ‘beautiful view of a green plain’ but instead he finds a ghost town where past and “Strongly emotional story with interesting characters present exist together and the boundary between life and a good strong multi-layered plot.” and death is not defined. A classic of Latin American “Although this is a light read, it is also a satisfyingly Literature, first published in Mexico in 1955. intricate story, compelling and heady - quite a page turner and very hard to put down.” BDS Reviewers

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PERLA O PLAGUE, THE De Robertis, Carolina 276pp 2012 Camus, Albert 272pp 1947 Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ of the 1970s and 80s is a Based on existentialist philosophy, this novel, set in war that most people know little about. So too for Algeria, studies people’s reactions to isolation during a Perla Correa, daughter of a military family, who is plague. cocooned from the harsh realities of life in a country with questionable political regimes by her family’s PIGEON ENGLISH privileged position. However, Perla’s search for Kelman, Stephen 263pp 2011 the truth of her background reveals some shocking Fresh off the plane from Ghana, eleven year old occurrences and sheds light on a tragic period of Harrison Opuku [Harri] and his family have plenty to Argentinean history. Its basis in true events combined adjust to in England especially as their new home is in with the characteristic Latin American use of magic a gang- ridden London housing estate. Seen through realism creates a compelling, harrowing yet fascinating Harri’s eyes, this is an adventure in finding your place story. and fitting in. That is until Harri and his friends’ efforts to find out how a local boy was murdered threaten the PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE, THE progress his family has made to survive in this alien Weisgarbeer, Ann 307pp 2008 environment. Often funny, never predictable, this Isaac and Rachel DuPree are black land owners novel features an endearing protagonist and a poignant struggling to establish their ranch in the South Dakota storyline that highlights the many challenges faced by Badlands around the time of World War 1. Against migrants. this unforgiving landscape, Rachel is caught between her husband’s ambition for more land and the daily PLEASE DON’T COME BACK FROM THE MOON struggle to feed her children. Life is grim and in Bakopoulos, Dean 220pp 2005 O this cauldron of severe drought, love and loyalties are sorely tested. A memorable story with strong In this coming-of-age story, set in the 1990s in a characters bringing to light the hardships and social working-class neighbourhood of Detroit, all the tensions of the American west. men vanish mysteriously from the neighbourhood, one of them leaving a note saying: “I’m going to the PHOTOGRAPHER’S WIFE, THE moon.” Narrator Michael Smolij and his friends Sole, Robert 320pp 2000 seem to be following in their fathers’ footsteps as they hang out drinking and fighting. The novel follows In 1891, during an annual family photograph on the Michael and his friends over the course of a decade beach at Alexandria, Cairo, a fledgling photographer, as the restlessness of their fathers bloom in them. Milo Touta, meets and falls in love with a painter, Dora Gradually, those good or smart or lucky enough begin Sawaya. His business flourishes with Dora developing to turn themselves around as they face adulthood, flair as a portraitist — much to her husband’s chagrin. start families, and are forced to move beyond the Packed with period detail of turn-of-the-century desperation of the minimum-wage world. Egyptian society. Translated. PLEASE, MR EINSTEIN PICKUP, THE Carrière, Jean-Claude 185pp 2007 Gordimer, Nadine 270pp 2002 It is the early 21st century, and a young, nameless A novel about a chance encounter between a student, intent on learning more about Albert Einstein, wealthy girl and an educated, but poor Arab in Cape finds her way into a mysterious office that houses Town. When the casual friendship turns into love, Einstein himself — full of generosity and the desire unimagined consequences are set in motion. Winner to make his ideas plain. Having covered the basics of of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Africa, 2002. relativity, the student soon presses Einstein to examine the morality of his theories and his responsibility for PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK the creation of nuclear weapons: could the world after Lindsay, Joan 213pp 1967 Hiroshima and Nagasaki truly be a better place? Nineteen school girls accompanied by their teachers set off for a day’s outing. An Australian “more-than-a- mystery” story of an innocent and happy outing that ends in tragedy.

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PLUMB M PROMISE OF HAPPINESS, THE Gee, Maurice 272pp 1978 Cartwright, Justin 306pp 2004 First volume about the Plumb family. Plumb is a minister The five members of the Judd family, reeling from a whose disenchantment with the Church, and involvement series of personal and professional blows, have each with socialism, leads to his becoming a conscientious retreated into a private world. But the impending objector, and, subsequently, imprisonment. release of eldest daughter Juliet, an art historian incarcerated in an upstate New York prison for helping POISONWOOD BIBLE, THE to sell stolen Tiffany windows, sets in motion the plot Kingsolver, Barbara 614pp 1999 — and the family. Kingsolver waited thirty years to write this book, having PROVOCATION experienced the Belgian Congo as a child. In 1959, M Grimshaw, Charlotte 282pp 1999 Baptist missionary, Nathan Price, sets off for the Congo with his wife, four daughters, and Betty Crocker cake Drawing on her experience as a criminal lawyer, mixes. They are woefully unprepared for the isolation, Grimshaw’s first novel deals with the extremes of climate, and political upheaval as the Congolese seek human behaviour. Anyone can be provoked, and independence from Belgium. [Big read] it acts as a powerfully destructive force between Stella and her much older barrister lover with his POSSIBLE LIFE, A fast lifestyle. Her achievement is in the shift from Faulks, Sebastian 294pp 2012 intense neediness and naivety to self-awareness and consolation in solitude. Subtitled a novel in five parts, this book transports the reader to different settings and time periods PURPLE HIBISCUS while encountering diverse characters. Whether it Adichie, Chimamandi Ngozi 307pp 2003 is Geoffrey Talbot in World War Two, Billy Webb in a Victorian workhouse, Elena Duranti, a 2029 Kambili Achike is a 15 year-old neuroscientist, Jeanne a servant from 19th century Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered France, or Anya King, a 1970s singer/songwriter, each privilege in a country ravaged by story is beautifully rendered and can stand alone. political strife and personal struggle. However the intriguing connections between stories, Respected and generous with his the most notable being love and loss bring the work to money, her fanatically religious a complete and satisfying whole. father is nevertheless cruel when his wife and children don’t live up to his POSTCARDS expectations. When Kambili and her Proulx, E Annie 339pp 1992 older brother visit their aunt, family secrets and tensions bubble to the surface, setting in The story of Loyal Blood who spends a lifetime on motion a chain of events that allows Kambili to slowly the run from a crime. His only contact with his past blossom as she begins to question the authority of the is through a series of postcards he sends home at adults she once held sacred. Commonwealth Writers’ irregular intervals. Prize.

POTIKI M QUIET AMERICAN, THE Grace, Patricia 185pp 1986 Greene, Graham 212pp 1955 Insight into a Maori community when it is threatened One of Greene’s lighter novels. Set in Vietman in by Pakeha development. Award-winning novel. the 1950s, it is the story of a young, idealistic and quiet American called Pyle who is employed in the PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Economic Aid Mission. He is sent to Vietnam to Austen, Jane 327pp 1813 promote democracy – but is it possible to intervene The novel relates the story of the Bennett family, and in another culture to solve their problems? Could we contains many examples of Austen’s wisdom and sharp often be the cause of their problems? observation.

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RAISING WRECKER REMEMBER ME M Wood, Summer 290pp 2011 Hansen, Derek 390pp 2007 When Wrecker’s mother goes to prison, he is three, an When a 12-year old boy writes an essay and angry and damaged little boy living up to his name. inadvertently uncovers a wartime secret, he unleashes It takes a village to raise a child and for Wrecker this a chain of events which rips a close community apart, ends up being the commune of Bow Farm in Humboldt turning neighbour against neighbour, friend against County, Northern California. Flower power, hippies, friend. It is Auckland 1956. While the country has misfits and all, this is a heart-warming story of quirky been spared the destruction which ravaged Europe characters and who and what makes a family. and Asia, beneath the surface bitter memories and old enmities run deep. The war may be over but, as the READER, THE boy discovers, it is far from done with. Schlink, Bernhard 216pp 1997 A pared-down, moral mystery that begins in post-war REPORT, THE Berlin. The teenage Berg has an affair with an older Kane, Jessica Francis 235pp 2010 woman, Hanna, whom he feels he betrays. Later, as As the local magistrate it is Laurence Dunne’s a law student, he sits in on a trial in which Hanna responsibility in 1943 to complete an inquiry into the is a principal defendant. They communicate during worst civilian disaster of World War Two: the Bethnal her imprisonment where he discovers another of her Green tube disaster. Thirty years later, his decisions are secrets. Translated from German. under the spotlight. Based on a real event, this novel alternates between the two periods examining the fraught READING IN THE DARK search for blame and the issue of truth for a grieving Deane, Seamus 233pp 1996 community. Compelling and thought provoking. An unnamed narrator looks back on his childhood and adolescence in the 1940s and 1950s in the Bogside RESTLESS neighbourhood of Derry. Fragments of his family’s Boyd, William 325pp 2006 tortured history are pieced together by a son who When Ruth Gilmartin learns the true identity and refuses to adhere to the family’s unspoken pact of the WWII profession of her ageing mother, Sally, silence. Dublin Impac Literary Award, 1997. she is understandably surprised. Sally, nèe Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian migrant living in Paris in RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, THE O 1939, was recruited as a spy by the head of a secretive Hamid, Mohsin 184pp 2007 propaganda group called British Security Coordination, At the table sit two men: a young Pakistani named a covert branch of British Intelligence created to coax Changez and an American. Only Changez speaks, America into the Second World War. Ruth’s mother and he relates his story, beginning with his days at was eventually betrayed, and forced to flee to England Princeton, his success as a financial analyst and his and live under an assumed identity. Ruth is swept into budding romance with a fellow Princetonian. Then a dangerous game: finding her mother’s betrayer before come the attacks of 11 September and over the next it’s too late. Historical thriller. few months, the innocence of his ambition is shadowed by his experience – and by his altered understanding REUNION, THE of his Pakistani past. As his identity fractures under Van Der Vlugt, Simone 295pp 2008 the strain of conflicting impulses he returns to his Memory is a funny thing… Sabine Kroese is experiencing homeland, and the complexity of his new life. flashbacks from nine years earlier when her former best friend disappeared. What did happen that day, and why REMARKABLE CREATURES O is she starting to remember now? As the fragments of Chevalier, Tracy 352pp 2009 memory slowly coalesce, Sabine is intent on discovering Set in England in the early 19th Century, this is the story the truth. Set in the Netherlands, this is a fast-paced of remarkable creatures: Mary Anning and Elizabeth psychological thriller that captures the reader’s attention Philpot, passionate fossil collectors; and the fossils with its strong plot and interesting examination of the themselves, significant signposts in the developing nature of memory. Translated from Dutch. understanding of evolution. Based on real characters and scientific events, this gentle paced story allows the reader to painlessly absorb an interesting history lesson.

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REVOLVER O RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER, THE Sedgwick, Marcus 220pp 2009 Mankell, Henning 406pp 2003 Confronted by a stranger, Sig and his sister Anna are Swedish police officer Stefan Lindman is engaged on held ransom in their isolated cabin. Hidden away is all fronts. He has just been diagnosed with cancer, their father’s Colt revolver, offering them the possibility and a former colleague, Herbert Molin, has been of deliverance… With its moral dilemmas played out found brutally murdered. Deciding to investigate the in the desolate surroundings of the Arctic Circle and murder while having to face up to his own mortality, gold rush fever, this is a story of surprising tension and Stefan must contend with no witnesses, no apparent elegant writing; a short read of deceptive simplicity. motive, and a crime scene with bloody footprints that mimic the steps of a tango. As chilling as its RIDERS, THE Scandinavian setting, this intricately choreographed Winton, Tim 377pp 1994 novel is an engaging contemporary mystery that examines the lingering legacy of Nazism. Translated Australian novel in which the main character travels Europe from Swedish. in search of his wife who has inexplicably vanished.

“This is really good writing. Good suspense. The reader feels that they are right there.” ROAD TO URBINO, THE O “Engrossing read. A great mystery.” Tearne, Roma 338pp 2012 “Enjoyable. It has the twists and turns of One Tuscan summer, Renaissance a detective novel.” artist Piero della Francesca’s “Wow. A really great, gripping read. A bit paintings draw together three gory at times.” disparate men; Lyndon Rasangium BDS Reviewers (Ras), Charles Boyer and Alex Benson. The works of art set in play events that will dramatically impact on their lives and those of the people they love, as well RISK MO as highlighting the plight of the Stead, C K 267pp 2012 Tamil people. Moving between Sri Lanka, Italy and England, this beautifully crafted story weaves together When Auckland lawyer Sam Nola a complex plot that gradually reveals why Ras is in arrives in London in 2002, the world custody awaiting trail, while inviting the reader to is his oyster. Working for a merchant ponder the experience of civil war, immigration and bank his financial future seems identity and the seductive power of art. assured, a daughter from a youthful liaison makes contact, all in all, life is looking pretty rosy. That is, until “Very complicated plot with many characters but subprime mortgages rear their ugly woven together so beautifully it is a joy to follow.” heads and things start hotting up in Iraq. An absorbing read portraying the dishonesty and “Exquisite writing and prose are the hallmarks excesses at work in the world of international finance of Tearne’s writing.” and politics in a turbulent decade. “Underlying the story are powerful messages about civil war, immigration, mixed blood parentage, acceptance, love, loss and identity.” “Beautifully written and very easy to read. Stead BDS Reviewers has a poet’s use of words.” “Very well written, the reader quickly becomes drawn into the lives of the characters.” “I loved the structure of this novel, the way Sam’s story was juxtaposed with major world events.” BDS Reviewers

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ROAD, THE O McCarthy, Cormac 307pp 2006 ROSIE PROJECT, THE O Simsion, Graeme 295pp 2013 Unfolding in a terrifying post-apocalypse future, The Road traces the odyssey of a father and his young son At first glance, Professor Don Tillman and Rosie to the coast through a desolate landscape. The father Jarman are unlikely to be regarded as the romantic dimly remembers the world as it was and occasionally couple of the decade. Don, a geneticist blissfully dreams of it; the son has never known anything else. In unaware he is on the autistic spectrum, initiates The order to live, they must keep moving amid a shadowy Wife Project, (featuring a 16 page questionnaire), in and dangerous landscape. The relationship between order to find his perfect mate. Rosie on the other father and son represents all that is good in a universe hand, is more interested in finding out the identity where conventional notions of good and evil have of her biological father and who better to assist her been extinguished. Their love for each other, and their with this than an expert in the field of genetics. What sheer endurance, are symbols of hope. transpires is a highly enjoyable and refreshing caper that reflects on the universal desire for love and ROAD HOME, THE understanding. Tremain, Rose 365pp 2007 Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he “This is a refreshing, funny and pacy tale. While it’s can send money back to Eastern Europe to support a light story it’s a highly enjoyable one.” his mother and small daughter. He struggles with the “This is a quick, easy and entertaining read.” mysterious rituals of “Englishness”, and the fashions “If you’re looking for a light, yet positive and and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev funny read, then this is the one for you.” travels through Lev’s eyes, and we share his dilemmas: “Laugh out loud funny. Gives a sympathetic the intimacy of his friendships, old and new; his joys view of those on the spectrum.” and sufferings; his aspirations, and his hopes of finding his way home, wherever home may be. BDS Reviewers

ROOM Donoghue, Emma 401pp 2010 ROUND HOUSE, THE Erdrich, Louise 338pp 2012 Ma and Jack’s world is limited physically to a space 11 foot square, but unlimited by imagination that Joe is thirteen when his mother transforms each and every facet of their existence. Jack was assaulted on the North Dakota is turning five and Ma realises that their world needs Chippewa reservation where they to expand. Although this is the story of their forced lived. Even though his father was a confinement and eventual escape, it is ultimately tribal judge, conflicting jurisdictions testimony to a profound relationship that not only meant the rule of law was of little makes it possible for them to survive the unthinkable use. Grappling with his mother’s but rise above it. Narrated by Jack, this is a powerful withdrawal and the perpetrator and moving novel which will have you pacing out 11 roaming free, Joe and his friends set square feet and asking yourself what if this had been out in the pursuit of their own brand of justice, with me or someone I loved? shocking consequences. Juggling indigenous culture, a coming of age story and a whodunnit, this is an ROOM WITH A VIEW, A engrossing and fascinating insight into reservation life. Forster, EM 256pp 1908 Winner of the 2012 (USA) National Book Award. A classic tale of romantic intrigue. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, finds her “A gripping story, I enjoyed the beautiful lyrical language.” “undeveloped heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy, and by her encounter with the unconventional “One gets an insight into the Native American George Emerson”. culture, its traditions and stories.” “It’s very readable and gives an interesting insight into life for Native Americans dealing with several forms of laws and rules.” BDS Reviewers

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RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING Pouncey, Peter 208pp 2006 RUNNING THE RIFT Benaron, Naomi 360pp 2011 The eighty-year-old Scotsman, Robert MacIver, a Jean Patrick Nkuba was born to run. retired historian and recent widower, is holed up in He has his sights set on becoming his ramshackle house on Cape Cod, awaiting the end an Olympic champion and his of his life. While he waits, he devises a set of rules to athletic prowess will be his saving impose order on his last days. The most important rule grace when it comes to surviving is to “tell a story to the end”. Woven into his memories the oncoming catastrophe. For Jean of love, loss, and rugby, is a wartime tale of MacIver’s Patrick is a Tutsi, and his country is invention that helps him work through his rage, regret, on the brink of tragedy. Sensitively and grief. written, this novel presents a powerful coming of age story in its recounting of a nation and its citizens in bloody tumult while RULES OF CIVILITY O Towles, Amor 392pp 2011 offering a tender and buoyant tribute to the people of Rwanda. Winner of the Bellwether prize for fiction. From its opening in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on [Small font] New Year’s Eve 1937, to a photo exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966, this is a story of New York: chance encounters, dazzling possibilities and a “The book brings home to the reader the horror of this society in transition. At its heart is the ambitious and terrible event which occurred a very short time ago.” upwardly mobile Katy Kontent, daughter of Russian “Although the horror is always there in the background, immigrants and ready for all that the city offers. With it is dealt with in a sensitive manner.” links to George Washington’s ‘Rules of Civility & “I loved the book. I will re-read the book in a Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation’, it month or so. The book made me want to read is a witty and stylish observation of New York society, more about Rwanda.” the randomness of chance and the off-hand decisions “I found the role of the UN to be interesting. I was that shape our lives. pleased the author included that.” BDS Reviewers “Thoroughly enjoyed the book - ‘elegant and captivating’.” Wellington 041 “This was an amazingly interesting book. Everyone SACRED ART OF STEALING, THE OH really enjoyed the descriptions of the era. Brookmyre, Christopher 410pp 2002 Highly recommended if you like the 30s.” The Sacred Art of Stealing is a satirical crime Napier 023 novel. The plot centres around the relationships “Very interesting book. Many found the between a likeable thief, Zal Innez, and Angelique characters unlikeable but the atmosphere of inner New York was fascinating.” d’Xavia, the Asian-Scottish detective whose job it is to catch him. The crime is a bank robbery, and Christchurch 203 the thieves are smart. Typical Brookmyre black humour and frequent use of strong language, as RUN O Patchett, Ann 295pp 2007 well as hilarious observations and remarks. Bernard Doyle has nurtured his sons — brothers adopted twenty years earlier — since the death of his SACRED HUNGER wife, Bernadette. One snowy evening, the middle Unsworth, Barry 627pp 1994 son, Tip, is pushed out of the way of an on-coming Suspenseful period piece that follows the failing vehicle by a woman, herself hit and badly injured. She fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last turns out to be the boys’ birth mother and who’s been chance to a slave ship. The voyage of the “Liverpool watching the boys for years, along with her 11 year-old Merchant” is thwarted by disease and mutiny. Those daughter, Kenya. The drama of a single day is given an left on board, sail for Florida to set up a secret, Utopian unreal quality by the snow that curtails normal activity, society. A meditation on how avarice dehumanises the as the characters struggle with their circumstances. oppressor, and the oppressed. Booker Prize, 1994.

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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN SEA, THE O Torday, Paul 330pp 2007 Banville, John 264pp 2005 Why does Mr Alfred Jones feel as though something is After his wife’s recent death, Max Morden travels missing in his life? He has many reasons to be content. back to the seaside town where he lived as a child, His job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory and he retreating from the grief, anger and numbness of has just celebrated his twentieth wedding anniversary. his life without her. There, he relives the childhood When he is asked to help create a salmon river in the summer when he met the Graces, a well- highlands of the Yemen, Fred rejects the idea as absurd. heeled vacationing family who took him in and But the proposal catches the eye of several senior British politicians. And so Fred finds himself forced to unwittingly introduced him to a world of feeling figure out how to fly ten thousand salmon to a desert he’d never experienced before. Interwoven with country — and to persuade them to swim there. this story, are his memories of his past, his wife, her long decline into illness, and of moments, SARAH THORNHILL O both significant and mundane, of his present life. Grenville, Kate 304pp 2012

Following in the footsteps of the earlier story of the SEASON OF THE JEW, THE M Thornhill family introduced in The Secret River, this Shadbolt, Maurice 489pp 1986 novel focuses on the youngest daughter. Sarah is a spirited heroine with a strong sense of justice shaping Historical novel set in Hawkes Bay. About Te Kooti, the her life as she falls in love, marries another and takes 19th-century Maori leader. responsibility for righting the wrongs of her family’s dark legacy. With its evocative images of landscape SECOND CHANCES M and its engaging characters, this is an unforgettable Norman, Charity 396pp 2012 story of colonial Australia including a brief foray across “Finn fell.” Such simple little words the Tasman. A satisfying stand-alone. to start a story, such simple words that belie the truth behind the event. SARAH’S KEY Five-year-old Finn’s fall from the De Rosnay, Tatiana 294pp 2008 first floor verandah of his family’s Paris, July 1942. Sarah, a 10 year old girl, is taken Hawke’s Bay home is shocking in with her parents by the French police as they go door its unexpectedness and a signal that to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of all is not well in the McNamara the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, household. Recently emigrated Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their from the UK, expectations are being exceeded secret hiding place – and promises to come back for all round, except that is, for Sacha, and that’s just him as soon as they are released. Sixty years later, teenagers for you … isn’t it? This thought-provoking Sarah’s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, a novel delves into every parent’s worst nightmare with journalist investigating the round-up. Sarah’s Key is recognisable characters and setting, events that ring an emotionally gripping story of two families forever true, and a courageous exploration of the social issues linked to, and haunted by one of the darkest days in that we face in our homes and communities. France’s past. SECRET LIFE OF BEES, THE O Monk Kidd, Sue 374pp 2001 SATURDAY McEwan, Ian 304pp 2006 Set in 1960s southern USA, Lily, a motherless white Saturday, 15 February 2003. Henry Perowne, a teenager, lives with her embittered father, but is raised successful neuro-surgeon, and happily married with by her black housekeeper, Rosaleen. Following a racist two children, wakes up before dawn and is filled with incident, Lily and Rosaleen become fugitives from a growing unease. On his way to his usual squash justice, finding refuge in the home of three bee-keeping game, and trying to avoid war protestors filling the sisters. It is in this unique community that Lily comes to streets of London, he has a minor car accident, which terms with her life and the death and loss of her mother. brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a small-town thug — an encounter with savage consequences.

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SECRET RIVER, THE SHADES OF GREY Grenville, Kate 334pp 2005 Fforde, Jasper 432pp 2010 William Thornhill is an illiterate bargeman driven Imagine a society where your place in the social to steal to survive hard times in London. When his hierarchy is determined by your ability to perceive death sentence is commuted to extradition to New colour. We see this world through the eyes of Eddie South Wales, he and his family again find themselves Russet, a 19 year old, sent to the Outer Fringes as struggling to make ends meet. But, as he transforms punishment for his innocently subversive ideas about himself into a trader, he realises that the British are not queuing. His journey of political enlightenment the first to make New South Wales their home, and the begins when he meets Jane, a lowly Grey. Combining delicate co-existence with the Aboriginal population elements of romance, mystery, suspense and comedy dissolves into violence. with original ideas and quirky wordplay, this story is a bemusing yet enthralling adventure in an Orwellian SECRETS OF THE TIDES world. Richell, Hannah 391pp 2012 It’s not possible to unleash a Pandora’s box of angst SHADOW OF THE WIND, THE Zafón, Carlos Ruiz 536pp 2004 and grief and expect it to just go away. The Tide family’s past was always going to catch up with them Daniel, the son of a bookseller, is taken by his father to and just like the real tide, inevitable and relentless, a secret place ‘The Cemetery of Forgotten Books’. He so too are the results of lamentable decisions and is invited to select a book, with the promise that he will selfish preoccupations. Set in coastal Dorset, this is be its protector for his lifetime. Thus begins a journey the compelling story of Helen and Richard Tide and starting in Barcelona in 1945, that combines several daughters Cassie and Dora confronting their shrouded genres; gothic, mystery, romance and thriller, to create past in order to ensure their future. a powerful and enthralling story.

SENSE OF AN ENDING, THE O SHAG INCIDENT, THE M Barnes, Julian 150pp 2011 Johnson, Stephanie 295pp 2002 Tony Webster is considering the fickle nature of “In my experience, it was a man completely unknown memory; now retired, he is pondering the course of to me who shaped the entirety of my mid-late life.” So his life. When a lawyer’s letter arrives out of the blue, speaks the ex-All Black and millionaire blockbuster he is transported back 40 years to when he and his novelist, Howard Shag, in his authorised biography coterie of friends were callow youths, and he’d had his written by Melody Argyle. A darkly satirical and first girlfriend, Veronica. Prompted by the unexpected wickedly funny novel that takes on a range of inheritance from Veronica’s mother, Tony examines contemporary matters. Montana NZ Book Awards these memories, uncertain of their veracity. A clever Deutz Medal . and thought-provoking read awash with philosophical musings, tempered with English reserve. Man Booker SHE MAY NOT LEAVE M Prize 2011. Weldon, Fay 284pp 2005 Hattie, a literary-rights agent, and journalist Martyn are SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, THE Sofer, Dalia 338pp 2007 partners. They hire a Polish au pair for their daughter, Kitty. Agnieszka produces unprecedented order in Caught in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, the their household, allowing Hattie to return to work and wealthy and privileged Amin family fall foul of the the couple to enjoy real food and sex once in a while. revolutionary guard. Isaac, the father, is imprisoned However, Hattie’s grandmother, Frances, suspects and the effect on the family is calamitous. Not only Agnieszka isn’t quite what she seems. Can they afford to is this a story of a Jewish family surviving a turbulent let her go? world, it is also a delicate exploration of the universal themes of love and identity, materialism and privilege. A compelling and multi-layered read.

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SHOT M O SHELTER O Quigley, Sarah 250pp 2003 Greenslade, Frances 376pp 2010 Hit by a wayward bullet while revisiting her childhood Two sisters. One mother missing neighbourhood for a donut, Lena’s life changes in action. Abandoned as young physically and emotionally. Leaving behind her teenagers, Maggie and Jenny struggle relationship and career as a stand-up comedian, she to understand the mysterious heads for Alaska. When Lena meets a mysterious disappearance of their previously tracker and a speechless child, she discovers that loss kind and caring mother. Set in can sometimes be gain. British Columbia in the 1960s and 70s, this is a multi-faceted story that SHRIMP AND THE ANEMONE, THE peels back the complex layers of Hartley, LP 190pp 1944 family relationships especially our connection to our A summer in the lives of Eustace and Hilda, brother mothers. and sister. Deeply perceptive of human relationships. An autobiographical novel. First book in a trilogy. “Loved it. Best book for ages. Beautifully written.” UK. Auckland 166 “Beautifully written keeping the reader guessing SIDDHARTHA O until the end. Would definitely recommend.” Hesse, Herman 119pp 1922 Christchurch 011 A lyrical novel about a young Indian’s search for truth “We unanimously enjoyed this novel and would read among Eastern religions and other wisdom. Translated another book by the same author.” from German. Auckland 292 SISTER O “Generated lots of discussion. Lovely prose. A sad story.” Lupton, Rosamund 358pp 2010 Otaki 001 The Hemming sisters have always had a powerful “We loved this book. Good to have a nice easy bond, so much so that when Tess is considered to read with a nice, if sad story.” have committed suicide, Beatrice refuses to accept Ashburton 016 this explanation for her disappearance. As Beatrice unravels what has happened to Tess, the old wounds of the family’s medical history are reopened. Cleverly SHORT HISTORY OF A PRINCE, THE O narrated in a series of letters that Beatrice writes to her Hamilton, Jane 432pp 1998 missing sister, this is a remarkable and compelling story The summer of 1972 in Illinois is a turning-point of sibling connection, medical misadventure and a for adolescent Walter. He is obsessed with ballet, search for truth. Easy to read, hard to put down and an literature, and classical music; aware also of his ending that will leave you wondering. homosexuality and the urge to hide it. Two decades later, he discovers a way to reconcile himself to the SILAS MARNER past. Eliot, George 190pp 1861 Once in her childhood, George Eliot saw a linen SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN, A weaver. Years later, she built this “legendary tale” Lewycka, Marina 336pp 2006 on the memory. About a lonely man whose life is When two estranged sisters discover that their elderly transformed by someone else’s child who becomes his father, a Ukrainian war refugee and expert on tractors, own. is planning to marry a young Ukrainian woman, they put aside their differences, and embark on a spirited SIX SUSPECTS O campaign to stop him. But as the hostilities mount, Swarup, Vikas 575pp 2008 old family secrets come falling out, including the most The son of a politician is shot dead at a party as he deeply buried one of all. In the meantime, oblivious to celebrates his acquittal from a murder charge. Enter it all, their father carries on with the great work of his a journalist determined to find the killer. With the dotage — a grand history of the tractor. options narrowed down to the ‘six suspects’ who

58 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z were present at the party all toting guns, Arun Advan SMALL ISLAND investigates their lives and possible motivations and in Levy, Andrea 534pp 2004 the process exposes the disparities and complexities of The book focuses on an immigrant Jamaican couple the society they live in. With its vivid characters and and an English couple in post-war Britain. Gilbert and captivating plot, this classic whodunnit has the added Hortense rent a room in a house owned by Queenie attraction of also presenting a social commentary of and the absent Bernard, and confront the growing contemporary India. prejudice towards coloured immigrants on the part of many “Mother Country” residents. A comedy of SKYLARK OM errors occurs when Bernard, presumed dead, returns to Pattrick, Jenny 325pp 2012 find “Coloureds” in his home, and his wife producing Roll up, roll up! Take your seat and let the show a baby, which is certainly not his. Orange and begin. We are here to be entertained by Miss Lily Whitbread Prize Winner; Commonwealth Writer’s Alouette, artiste extraordinaire, originally from France Prize. and latterly from the Antipodes. This is the story of her life: orphaned on the Otago goldfields, member of a SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN O travelling circus troupe and pursuer of a career on the See, Lisa 340pp 2007 stage. From its presentation as a music hall playbill In 1903 80 year old Lily looks back on her life to its rich cast of characters, this is an imaginative and entertaining novel. Incorporating true events and real anchored by her childhood laotong, or arranged people, it presents both an unconventional life and a lifelong friendship with her friend Snow Flower. unique perspective of colonial times. Throughout their lives they communicate in nu shu, a secret language used exclusively by the SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 women of Hunan Province – they write of their Vonnegut, Kurt 143pp 1970 mutual devotion on a fan they pass between each A book based on Vonnegut’s wartime experiences. This other while confined to the upstairs women’s is science fiction with a message and humour. chamber in their homes. Although the laotong bonds endure it is a misunderstood message in nu SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE O shu that ultimately tears them apart. Swarup, Vikas 318pp 2005 Eighteen-year old Ram has just got twelve questions SNOWLEG correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion Shakespeare, Nicholas 387pp 2005 rupees. Following the order of the 12 questions on When Peter Hithersay discovers that his father is the show, Ram tells us which amazing episode in not the Englishman his mother married, but an East his life taught him the answer to the question. From German political dissident with whom she had a brief orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters affair in the sixties, he abandons Winchester for Leipzig and into the homes of Bollywood’s rich and famous, in search of his past. There, he meets a young woman Slumdog Millionaire brims with the comedy, tragedy, and falls in love. Their romance ends when his scheme joy and pathos of modern India. to smuggle her out of the country goes awry and he returns to England. Nineteen years later, when the two SMALL HOLES IN THE SILENCE M Germanys are reunited, Peter goes back to look for the Grace, Patricia 214pp 2006 woman he has never stopped loving. This is a collection of short stories highlighting a variety of urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, SOLDIER’S WIFE, THE O and contemporary themes. The world Patricia Grace Trollope, Joanna 320pp 2012 depicts, is an often stark and unsentimental place When Alexa marries Dan Riley it is not immediately in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, obvious that there will be a third partner in their violence, and betrayal. Grace’s sympathy for the relationship. However, when Dan returns from a underdog and the view of the outsider is a constant stint in Afghanistan, there is no denying that the thread drawing the stories together. British Army with all of its requisite demands and requirements has become the dominant partner. If their marriage is to survive, Alexa and Dan must balance their individual aspirations and the needs of

Open Books, Open Minds 59 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Fiction A - Z their young family with the sacrifice and commitment being asked of them. An easy-to-read insightful SON-IN-LAW, THE M story of family life battling it out with army life in a Norman, Charity 374pp 2012 contemporary arena. There’s no going back to how things used to be. Joseph Scott and SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, THE O his children, and their maternal Giordano, Paolo 348pp 2009 grandparents Hannah and Frederick Alice and Mattia are two lonely children who undergo Wilde, know this only too well for life changing childhood trauma. The impact of these they have lost Zoe, beloved wife, experiences and the bond they develop as teenagers mother and daughter. But now spills over into their adult lives. A disturbing yet there’s a battle to be fought. The compelling story of friendship and emotional suffering. stakes are high with the custody Translated from Italian. Winner of the Premio Strega of the children in dispute. Featuring fully realised award. characters and compassionate storytelling amidst the fraught dynamics of a family in crisis, this is a well balanced story that tackles the challenges of mental SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME Hill, Lawrence 534pp 2008 illness, divided loyalties and human fallibility.

Aminata is twelve when she is kidnapped by slave “I loved this book. Once I started it I traders from a village in Africa. Decades later, now an couldn’t put it down.” old woman, she recounts the story of her life. It is an “This is an ‘easy read’, so perhaps not for those epic journey encompassing three continents, plantation wanting something more literary.” life, the Revolutionary War, a return to Africa and culminates in London with Aminata testifying to the “It is a great story, well told which gives a wonderfully Parliamentary Committee on the Slave Trade. With balanced view of all three sides of the story.” its historically accurate details and cast of vivid “Great characters - believable and likeable characters, this saga is a deeply moving exposé of but also human and fallible.” slavery and the struggle for its abolition. Winner, 2008 BDS Reviewers Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

SOMETHING LIKE A HOUSE O SONATA FOR MIRIAM Smith, Sid 227pp 2001 Olsson, Linda 272pp 2008 Jim Fraser, a young British private, deserts from his To survive the devastating loss of his daughter, regiment at the end of the Korean War. He finds composer Adam Anker sets out to discover the himself very sick in a southern China clinic where he background to his own life. Moving between Waiheke is held captive and then given as a “slave” to Tao, a Island, Krakow and Sweden, Adam seeks to understand member of the ancient tribe of Miao. He adopts their his heritage and its influence on his life. This is a story way of life, and after nearly thirty-five years, learns the about grief and healing and the need to confront the truth about the role the clinic plays in the life of the past in order to make sense of the present and in turn, village. Whitbread First Novel Award, 2001. face the future.

SON OF WAR, A SONG OF ACHILLES, THE O Bragg, Melvyn 426pp 2001 Miller, Madeline 352pp 2012 In this stand-alone sequel to an earlier work, the The classic tale of Achilles and Patroclus, this Richardson family, Sam, Ellen and Joe are battling the exhilarating retelling breathes life into the world of grinding poverty of Wigton, Cumbria. In a society Homer’s Iliad. Recounted from Patroclus’ perspective, undergoing rapid change, their lives give testimony we accompany the friends through their childhoods, to the challenges of post-war England and the ‘keep to court life and finally to the siege of Troy. Legendary on keeping on’ stoicism of working-class life. From characters, gods making their presence felt and the outdoor lavatory to the blinding pain of untreated prophecies to fulfil combine to create a compelling toothache, this is a convincing portrayal of credible and enjoyable story for both the classicist revisiting the characters striving for a more prosperous future. [Small familiar tale or a newcomer to Homer. Winner of the font.] Orange Prize 2012.

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SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE O SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE Flanagan, Richard 425pp 1997 Le Carré, John 240pp 1963 It is 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric The author, John Le Carré, once worked for British dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Intelligence and used his knowledge to write about the Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away British agent, Alec Leamas, who longs to come in from from Slovenia, the privations of war and refugee the cold but is given one last scary assignment. settlements. One night Bojan’s wife walks off into a blizzard, never to return — leaving Bojan to drink too ST AGNES’ STAND much to quieten his ghosts and to care for their three Eidson, Thomas 201pp 1994 year-old daughter Sonja alone. Thirty-five years later, An injured outlaw — heading for freedom in California Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by — stumbles across the trapped survivors of an apache memories of the European war and other, more recent ambush: three nuns and seven orphaned children. horrors. Sister St Agnes, a resourceful woman, is convinced that Nat Swanson is sent by God to rescue them. Set in the SPACE BETWEEN US, THE mid-19th century. Umrigar, Thrity 321pp 2006 Set in Mumbai, this is a novel of two women and their STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG O families: Sera and her maid Bhima whose relationship Atkinson, Kate 350pp 2010 is longstanding and cordial. However when Sera From its intriguing title to the re-appearance of the pays for Bhima’s granddaughter’s education, a series reputable private investigator Jackson Brodie, this of events are set in play that threaten the well-being story is classic Atkinson territory. Revolving around of both families, exposing the class conflicts and children – whether abducted, adopted or abused, this injustices underpinning their lives. This is not only a story gives full reign to its likeable characters, resolving vivid social commentary of India, but an examination its intricate plots with flare. A clever and entertaining of the universal tension between friendship and family read. loyalty.

STATE OF WONDER SPARE ROOM, THE O Patchett, Anna 353pp 2011 Garner, Helen 195pp 2008 In an exotic corner of the Brazilian Rio Negro, a Helen lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend reclusive scientist, Dr Annick Swenson is developing a Nicola who is coming to stay for the next three weeks, miracle fertility drug. Marina Singh, a pharmaceutical while Nicola undergoes treatment she believes will researcher is sent by the drug company to make cure her advanced cancer. Helen becomes her nurse, contact with her and determine why another colleague her servant, her guardian angel and her stony judge. had died in the jungle. Both a thriller and a thought- The Spare Room is an unforgettable story about what provoking morality tale, it is a powerful and spell- happens to a friendship when the chips are down. binding story exploring human nature amidst the Winner, Queensland and Victorian Premiers’ Literary beauty and dangers of the Amazon. Awards.

STILL ALICE SPARROW, THE O Genova, Lisa 292pp 2009 Russell, Mary Doria 502pp 1997 At fifty, Alice Howland has it all – a happy marriage, The first of two books about an ambitious Jesuit adult children and a successful career as a Harvard mission to the distant world of Rakhat in 2059. Father Professor. But Alice and her family are at the Emilio Sandoz returns to Earth forty years later with his beginning of a devastating journey; she is diagnosed faith completely shattered. Although the society they with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Related from experience is alien, it is the human issues — faith, love Alice’s perspective, this is a story that sensitively and the role of God in human affairs — that drive the chronicles the loss and confusion that follows such story. Arthur C Clarke Award, 1998. a diagnosis, as well as deftly interweaving factual material. A poignant book that challenges the reader with questions of our worth and identity when our memories and intellect are no more.

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STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER, THE M prison keeper who has sincerely adopted the Taliban Mander, Jane 318pp 1920 ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, An Englishwoman marries a “colonial”, and goes to Musarrat who once rescued Atiq, and is now dying of live in Kaipara. sickness and despair. The lives of all four protagonists move irrevocably towards their destinies. STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL, THE O Simon, Rachel 340pp 2011 STORYTELLER, THE Picoult, Jodi 460pp 2013 In 1960s Pennsylvania, the only way inmates Lynnie and Homan can ensure Lynnie’s unborn child is not When Sage Singer befriends nonagenarian Josef incarcerated in ‘The School for the Incurable and the Weber, he asks a favour of her. But there is nothing Feebleminded’, is to flee. While Lynnie finds herself simple about this favour; Josef was a Nazi officer back in the institution, Homan escapes and baby in a concentration camp and is now seeking Julia is raised far from the reach of the authorities. absolution. Sage’s family are Jewish, and in wry twist As societal attitudes begin to change, freedoms are of coincidence, there exists a previous connection: granted and life for the residents with disabilities Minka, Sage’s grandmother, was incarcerated in starts to improve, but where are Homan and Julia? An Auschwitz. With its different perspectives on the insightful examination of institutional care and the taxing questions of justice and mercy, redemption unenviable decisions made on behalf of others. An and forgiveness, this is a gripping story that leaves the uplifting and rewarding read. reader pondering the moral choices that Sage, Minka and Josef have had to face. STORY OF LUCY GAULT, THE Trevor, William 228pp 2003 “I found this book captivating from beginning to end.” It is a time of social upheaval in 1920s Ireland when “While the subject of the book is challenging (WW II camps), I found it very hard to put Lucy Gault’s family are forced to leave their big house the book down. It’s not your usual Picoult style.” in rural Cork. Lucy hatches a plan to try and intervene in the hope that her parents will be forced to stay. “The best part of the book by far is the re-telling of Encapsulating the emotions of a child, Trevor reveals the concentration camp experiences - very well done.” the aftermath of a calamity that blights the lives of the BDS Reviewers Gaults for years to come.

SUITE FRANÇAISE SUMMER LIES Némirovsky, Irène 402pp 2006 Schlink, Bernhard 240pp 2013 Suite Française contains two novellas of life under Nazi Whisking the reader between Europe occupation — discovered and published sixty-four years and USA, this collection of seven after the author’s death. Némirovsky translates the horror short stories contemplates love and chaos of war at the precise moment it was exploding and loss, truth and deceit. With all around her. Conceived by the author as two parts scenarios that are believable and of a series, the stories of Suite Française were preserved characters that grapple with the very by her daughters after Némirovsky was deported to same questions that challenge us Auschwitz in 1942. Suite Française makes us witnesses in our relationships, these stories to life as it was in wartime France. [Small font.] are both thoughtful and thought- provoking. Translated from German.

SWALLOWS OF KABUL, THE “Very readable with good plots. Each story is Khardra, Yasmina 195pp 2005 gripping in its own right. An enjoyable read.” Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this novel “The writing is excellent, as ever, and the translation takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen is smooth and seamless.” who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers “Beautifully written.” whom the Taliban have destroyed, and Zunaira, his beautiful wife, once a brilliant teacher who is now “The stories are all just the right length and no longer allowed to leave home without escort or gripping. Loved the book.” covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a BDS Reviewers

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SYDNEY BRIDGE UPSIDE DOWN M THING AROUND YOUR NECK, THE Ballantyne, David 277pp 1968 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 218pp 2009 Harry lives in Calliope Bay, on the edge of the world. These twelve short stories explore what it means to be His mother has gone to the city, perhaps just for the Nigerian today — whether in Nigeria, or living in the summer, perhaps longer. But while Harry wonders West. Each story stands on its own with a powerful when she’ll be back he is free to explore the forbidden message imparted through a range of clearly drawn and dangerous meat works. When his beautiful older characters, young and old, male and female. Not only cousin Caroline arrives, Harry is torn between childish do these dazzling stories provide insights to an African games and his desire to protect her from the attentions culture but also involve the reader in examining of Wiggins the butcher, with terrible consequences. A universally human experiences such as loneliness, great, untamed New Zealand classic, Sydney Bridge homesickness, alienation, prescribed gender roles and Upside Down is a coming-of-age story, a disquieting seeking a better life. family tragedy and a sinister gothic thriller. Originally published in 1968, this edition is accompanied by an THINGS FALL APART introduction from . Achebe, Chinua 187pp 1958 Classic African writing in modern times, and often TALKING ABOUT O’DWYER M compared to the great Greek tragedies. Stead, CK 219pp 1999

A soldier of the Maori Battalion in World War II-Crete, THINKS is killed in action. A makutu curse is placed on Officer Lodge, David 352pp 2001 Donovan O’Dwyer by the dead soldier’s family, and he A satirical look at academic life and the sparring of two lives under its spell for half of his life. characters who are philosophically poles apart. Ralph Messenger is a cognitive scientist, an international TALKING HEADS academic star, and philanderer. Helen Reed is a Bennett, Alan 266pp 2007 novelist, newly appointed to teach creative writing A collection of 12 of Alan Bennett’s monologues at the same university, and recently widowed. Their originally filmed by BBC Television. At once darkly relationship is the catalyst for both comedy and social comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, commentary. “Talking Heads” is widely regarded as a modern classic. THIRTEEN MOONS Frazier, Charles 422pp 2006 TENDER IS THE NIGHT As a very old man, Will Cooper narrates his own Fitzgerald, F Scott 326pp 1934 story, beginning with his days as an orphaned, literate Continuing the portrait of society begun in The Great “bound boy” who is dispatched to run a trading post at Gatsby. This novel has different characters and can the edge of the Cherokee Nation. Thrust into a frontier be read separately. It tells of the disillusion that often society where everything is uncertain, he places his follows the Bohemian life. allegiance on the side of the embattled Cherokees, and his love in the hands of an elusive young woman he THEORY OF RELATIVITY, THE won in a card game. Mitchard, Jacquelyn 395pp 2009 THIRTEENTH TALE, THE When her parents die in a car accident, it is expected Setterfield, Diane 408pp 2006 that one year old Keefer McKenna will be cared for by her uncle according to the conditions of her parents’ Margaret Lea, an antiquarian bookseller and sometime Will. However as it is apparent that the Will was in biographer of obscure writers, receives a letter from the process of being changed, what ensues is a custody Vida Winter, “the world’s most famous living author”. battle passionately fought by both sides of the family. Vida has always invented pasts for herself in interviews, Based on a true story that resulted in a change to but now, on her death-bed, she has decided to tell adoption law, this emotionally intense but easy to read the truth, and has chosen Margaret to write her story. novel, evokes small-town America, and what it is to be Living at Vida’s country estate, Margaret finds herself family. spellbound by the tale of Vida’s childhood some seventy years earlier. But is it really the truth? And will Vida live to finish the story?

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THIS IS HOW their lives are irrevocably linked with Thessaloniki, Hyland, MJ 376pp 2009 their home in Northern Greece. This is their story played out amidst the momentous events of the Patrick Oxtoby’s life is defined by emotional immaturity 20th Century. From fire and earthquake to war and that ultimately leads to tragedy: his imprisonment persecution, this is a compelling saga of hardship, love for murder. The author has created a memorable and loyalty and a city with a turbulent history. character who offers the reader a unique opportunity to see the world through his eyes. Although bleak and disturbingly believable, this is a compelling portrait of THREAD OF GRACE, A O a man unable to cope with life’s complexities. Russell, Mary Doria 430pp 2005 In 1943, Claudette Blum and her father are among THOUGHTS AND HAPPENINGS OF WILFRED PRICE, thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing over the Alps PURVEYOR OF SUPERIOR FUNERALS, THE towards Italy to find safety. Although the Italians have Jones, Wendy 263pp 2012 split with Hitler, the Nazis seize control and the country becomes a battleground. Using oral and written The title says it all! The story, set in the 1920s, follows histories, Russell tells the little-known story of those Wilfred, an innocent chap, as he plies his trade in the who sought refuge in Italy during the final phase of Welsh village of Narbeth. When he becomes smitten World War II, and of those who risked all to help them. with Grace, the local doctor’s daughter, all that follows reflects the narrow minded morality of the era and the cost of keeping up appearances. Gently told and THREE JUNES O Glass, Julia 544pp 2003 with its gradual build-up of tension, this is a thought- provoking read reminding us of the importance of Three Junes spans three northern hemisphere summers living with truth and honour. across a decade in the divergent lives of the Scottish- American McLeod clan. This is a novel of love, loss, THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, A O and family bonds. Glass poignantly explores the role Hosseini, Khaled 372pp 2007 of fate and serendipity in bringing people together, as well as the communication gaps and shuttered Against the backdrop of war-torn Afghanistan, Mariam emotions that often keep them apart. was forced to marry forty-year-old Rasheed when she was only fifteen years old. Then, eighteen years later, her still childless husband angrily takes an even THREE VIEWS OF CRYSTAL WATER Govier, Katherine 417pp 2005 younger wife. Hosseini renders the story of Mariam and her “sister/daughter”, Laila, with persuasive Motherless at the age of six, Vera is left in the care detail and consummate humanity. Their abject of her grandfather, who spends long periods away at situation leaves them no emotional space for idle sea. When teenage Vera is taken by her grandfather’s philosophising; their resistance is from the very core of mistress to a small island in Japan, she finds comfort their being. after years of loneliness. The women of the island take her in and she learns to dive for pearls. But Vera is an THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, A outsider, and when war is declared in Europe, she must Li, Yiyun 219pp 2005 go home to Vancouver. Vera never forgets her island life and to regain the passion and joy that she once This collection of stories explores the ravages of the knew, she must return to Japan, to the one place where Cultural Revolution on modern Chinese, both in China she truly belonged. and America. Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to TIGER’S WIFE, THE Obreht, Téa 352pp 2011 a fastfood restaurant in Chicago, and to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, the stories reveal worlds When her grandfather dies in mysterious both foreign and familiar. circumstances, Natalia disassembles his life and the special relationship they shared. Having followed THREAD, THE O in his footsteps and trained as a doctor, Natalia had Hislop, Victoria 455pp 2011 embraced the rational approach of medical science, only now to find it in conflict with the mythical stories When offered the chance to spend their remaining she uncovers as she seeks to make sense of his life. years with their UK-based family, Katerina and Dimitri Moving between the past and present of their troubled Komninos cannot contemplate such a possibility as

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Balkan homeland, this is a story imbued with magic TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD realism and rich with the fairy tales and superstitions of Lee, Harper 290pp 1960 Eastern Europe. 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction. The lawyer’s story, as told by his daughter, portrays the best and worst of life in the US South during the TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE, THE Depression. It tells of Atticus’ attempt to defend a black Niffenegger, Audrey 518pp 2004 man accused of the rape of a white girl in the Deep This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of South. An American classic and Pulitzer Prize winner. Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry 36, and were married when TOWARDS ANOTHER SUMMER M Henry was 30 and Clare 22. Impossible but true, Frame, Janet 206pp 2007 because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed A previously unpublished novel in which with Chrono-Displacement Disorder. Periodically, explores themes of travel and return, homesickness and his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled belonging. Grace is a migratory bird, longing for her suddenly into his past or future. The couple’s own place in the world, if she can only decide where struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force it is. She is struggling to establish her identity as a they can neither prevent nor control, is moving and writer but first she must learn to be comfortable in her unforgettable. own skins. Written in 1963, this work is a precursor to An Angel at My Table, the autobiography Janet Frame wrote 20 years later.

TOBY’S ROOM TRAITOR M O Barker, Pat 264pp 2012 Daisley, Stephen 295pp 2010 When Elinor Brooke’s beloved This is an extraordinary New Zealand story: from the brother Toby is killed on the Western shores of Gallipoli and the horrors of the Western Front, the presence of an unposted Front, then home to rural New Zealand. At its heart is letter in his personal effects sets her David Monroe; soldier, pacifist, conscientious objector, on a determined path to find out stretcher-bearer, shepherd. The strong characterisation, what really happened to him. Her sparse writing style and taut plot combine to create a search for answers plays out against beautiful yet tragic story of war and love. an even more urgent quest that is engaging those around her: how TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF LUCAS LESSAR, THE to restore the lives of soldiers with Seliy, Shauna 259pp 2007 horrific facial injuries. Featuring the Bloomsbury A heart-warming story of a young boy’s search. Set and the Slade School of Art, this is a story that Over the winter of 1974, in the coal-mining town of chronicles the pioneering of facial reconstruction and Banning, Pennsylvania, Lucas, the youngest member of plastic surgery while considering the personal and a boisterous Eastern European family takes on a quest societal costs of war. Meticulous research and the to find his mother who disappears without explanation. inclusion of notable historical figures such as New Zealander Sir Harold Gillies and artist Henry Tonks, TRICKING OF FREYA, THE support the credentials of an author already well Sunley, Christina 370pp 2009 known for her powerful accounts of the Great War. This is the story of Freya Morris, daughter of sober and “Very well written, interesting and very well researched.” responsible Anna, niece of the wild and unpredictable Birdie, and granddaughter of the revered poet Olafur. “A different insight to reconstruction of faces due to war damage.” Olafur and his wife fled Iceland to Canada after the massive volcano eruption of 1875. As a result, Freya grows “I loved this book but it could be a bit gruesome up with her mother in Connecticut, and her extended for some.” family in the Icelandic community of Gimli, Canada. A “The book discusses the different classes of people in series of events leaves Freya with a sense of shame and the 1900s and how this changed during the war. loss: a freak accident, Freya’s kidnapping, a return to Very interesting.” Iceland, and the accidental discovery of a long-hidden BDS Reviewers family secret. Freya’s story deftly weaves in Iceland’s history, landscape, mythology and literary heritage.

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TROUBLE WITH FIRE, THE M TULIP FEVER O Kidman, Fiona 304pp 2010 Moggach, Deborah 259pp 1999 Linked by the common thread of fire, whether that of The rich texture of 17th-century Amsterdam — the passion or the more commonplace variety these eleven golden age of painting, religious toleration, and stories consider the lives of ordinary people. With feverish tulip speculation — offers a backdrop to the its distinctively New Zealand flavour, this collection drama of a doomed love triangle. Colour plates of provides finely drawn characters and situations that Dutch paintings are an added feature. chronicle changes in society, especially for women, from our colonial past to the present day. TURN OF THE SCREW, THE James, Henry 296pp 1898 TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG A psychological novel and a ghost story in which the Carey, Peter 401pp 2001 spirits of children reappear to haunt a governess. Or Ned Kelly, the legendary Australian bush outlaw, do they? headed a gang whose mythic two years on the run ended in a shootout with the police at a pub in UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY O Glenrowan, June 1880. Being the only survivor, Mitchell, Shandi 416pp 2009 Kelly was tried and hanged, aged twenty-six Breaking in the farmland of the Canadian prairies in years. Kelly narrates his own “history”, driven, as the 1930s is not for the faint hearted. For two migrant he claims, to becoming an outlaw because of the Ukrainian families eking out a living in these extreme harassment of both him and his family by corrupt conditions, the grinding poverty and clashes with police. Booker Prize Winner, 2001. authority add to the challenges of life in a different country. The trials and tribulations that befall these families are narrated through sensitively portrayed TRUTH OH characters, and provoke the question ‘How far will one Temple, Peter 387pp 2009 go to survive’? Inspector Stephen Villani, the ambitious head of the Victorian police homicide team, is seeking the truth. UNDERGROUND MAN, THE Hampered in his pursuit by failings in his own past and Jackson, Mick 266pp 1997 corruption of both police and politicians, he’s caught The fifth Duke of Portland is a Victorian misfit who in a conflict of interest and there’s a price to be paid. spends his time and wealth creating a network of Cops, criminals and crime, it’s a powerful combination tunnels beneath his Nottinghamshire estate. As he and allied with taut action, flawed characters and the withdraws from society, he falls prey to his lonely self- scorched cauldron of a Melbourne summer, this is a absorption and the mercy of his household staff. The quintessential Australian thriller. Winner of the 2010 Duke’s piecing together of the truth about his past, Miles Franklin Literary Award. builds to an intense and powerful conclusion.

TU M O UNFEELING Grace, Patricia 287pp 2004 Holding, Ian 243pp 2005 Tu tells the story of Te-Hokowhitu-a-Tu, one of three Unfeeling tells the story of a white sixteen-year-old sons from the same family who go to war, but the only African boy whose parents are killed when their son to return. When his young niece and nephew prosperous farm is seized by militia in a brutal attack. come to him to find out what really happened, Tu By a fluke, Davey survives the attack and is taken in decides to hand over his diary which records his by his nearest neighbours. In an attempt to establish wartime experiences, and the life of his family in 1940s “normality”, Davey (although clearly traumatised) is Wellington. Grace has drawn from the accounts of her sent back to his boarding school. But Davey is on father and other relatives, creating an authentic and a different path. One night, he runs away from his moving story. Deutz Medal Winner, Montana NZ Book school and embarks on a journey to his family farm to Awards. avenge his parents’ murder, and claim back the farm. Based on real events.

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UNLESS UP FROM THE BLUE Shields, Carol 213pp 2002 Henderson, Susan 320pp 2010 Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and Tillie Harris’ family are different. Their home life is growing success as a writer of light fiction. But her chaotic; her father is a no-nonsense US colonel, her world is changed when her nineteen year-old daughter brother is following in his footsteps and behaving like abandons university to sit on a Toronto street corner a good little soldier, and her emotionally fragile mother with a begging bowl. A meditation on society. Booker mysteriously disappears when Tillie is eight. It is only Prize Shortlist, 2002. years later, when Tillie gives birth to her own child, that she is reconciled with her past. Tillie narrates this poignant and haunting struggle of a broken family doing UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS, THE its best to keep its secrets behind closed doors. Extence, Gavin 408pp 2013 In Alex Wood’s short life, there have been two major VARIOUS PETS ALIVE AND DEAD life-altering events, and it’s hard to say which will have Lewycka, Marina 388pp 2012 the most effect: being hit on the head by a meteorite Clara, Serge and Oolie Anna (Ulyana) are the adult when he was ten, or, as a teenager, meeting his elderly children of Marcus and Doro, ex-commune dwellers reclusive neighbour Isaac Peterson while trying to from way back. Clara strives for order, Serge for money evade the latest crop of school bullies. The unlikely and Oolie Anna for the right to live on her own. From friendship that develops gives Alex the sounding board communes to capitalism, chaos to conformity, the he needs to sort out his philosophy on life ... and times are a changing, and so too are the dynamics death. Astrophysics and neurology feature in this of this intriguing family. This story is a humorous reckoning, as do God, Kurt Vonnegut and the vexed and witty exploration of contemporary values with a issue of assisted suicide. This warm and engaging particular emphasis on the financial underpinnings of story is rich with humour, moral conflicts and Western society. intriguing characters tackling the important things of life ... and death. VERNON GOD LITTLE H “This is a marvellously well-written book with Pierre, DBC 288pp 2003 a rollicking, runalong plot line.” Teenager Vernon Gregory Little narrates the story of “I just love a book that makes me laugh out loud (or his life after the Columbine-style slaughter of a group cry in private). This one ticked all the boxes for me.” of students at his high school. When Vernon finds “Lots of issues to discuss. The author included himself blamed for the killings, his small Texas town is every subject from assisted death, disability blanketed under a media siege. This book contains an to science vs religion.” absurd mix of all that’s wrong in American (Western) “It is a good, generally light-hearted read with society. The book does contain bad language, but a very strong underlying moral conflict.” there is also clever, biting wit. Man Booker Prize Winner, and Whitbread Best First Novel Award. BDS Reviewers VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, A UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE Booth, Martin 288pp 2005 Joyce, Rachel 296pp 2012 As suggested by its title, this story involves a gentleman When Harold Fry leaves the house to post a card to who really values his privacy. He has good reason Queenie, a former colleague who is in a hospice, to; his passion for painting rare butterflies disguises he has no intention of bypassing the postbox and his true occupation of producing designer guns for hand delivering the message. But this is exactly what assassins. As he makes plans to retire, his past is set to happens; hundreds of kilometres later, Harold has catch up with him, shattering the peace of the Italian walked from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed. This village that he has made his home. With a likeable is not just a journey of weary muscles and blistered anti-hero, clever build-up of tension and its beautiful heels for Harold, but an opportunity for him to descriptions of the countryside, this well-crafted examine the twists and turns of his life, prompted in his novel with challenge and delight the reader with its introspection by the people he meets along the way. deceptions and moral conundrums. Also published as An insightful and heart-warming read. The American.

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VINTNER’S LUCK, THE M WALLED GARDEN, THE O Knox, Elizabeth 241pp 1998 Dunne, Catherine 309pp 2000 One summer night in 1808, winemaker Sobran Jodeau The story of a woman who reconciles herself with her sets out to drown his sorrows in his family’s vineyard. past at the time of her mother’s death. Set in the Dublin He meets a beautiful, male angel and an enduring suburbs, it depicts the mother-daughter relationship, relationship develops. A fantastical love story set in the while painting an atmospheric picture of Irish life from 19th-century French countryside. Montana NZ Book the 1950s to the present. Tender, but unsentimental. Awards Winner, 1999. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, A O Gruen, Sara 335pp 2006 Egan, Jennifer 351pp 2010 This is the story of a travelling circus in America during Bennie Salazar, an aging music producer and Sasha, the Depression. After Jacob Jankowski’s parents die his troubled employee are at the centre of a coterie in a tragic car accident, the bank repossesses their of characters revolving around the New York music home, which had been mortgaged to finance Jacob’s industry. Told from multiple points of view and shifting veterinary studies. Jacob has to terminate his studies. time frames, it captures and examines modern America Dejected, he jumps on a train carrying the “Benzini in all its glory and dysfunction. Both sad and funny, Brothers’ Most Spectacular Show on Earth”, and is it is a perceptive and rewarding read highlighting hired because of his veterinary skills. The novel, told the influence of music and technology in our lives. in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, holds Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2011. many complex layers — adventure, love, history, suspense, and a surprise ending. VISITATION, THE M Reidy, Sue 269pp 1996 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Shriver, Lionel 468pp 2003 Two sisters growing up in a Catholic family in the 1960s, experience a vision of the Virgin Mary hovering Narrated in the form of letters to her estranged about the lemon tree in their backyard. Humorous husband, Eva Katchadourian writes of their son debut by this NZ author. who has committed the most talked-about crime of the decade — a school shooting reminiscent of WAITING Columbine. From the start, she was ambivalent about Jin, Ha 308pp 1999 motherhood and never sure if she really wanted a child. Eva fears that her dislike for her own son may Lin Kong, a Chinese army doctor, returns to Goose have been the cause of his chilling shooting-spree. Village every summer to seek a divorce from his Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms loyal wife. He wishes to marry his love, Manna Wu. with marriage, career, family, and parenthood. According to army regulations, he must have his wife’s consent, and then only can he be free after eighteen WE WERE THE MULVANEYS years have passed. A novel of love, politics and truths Oates, Joyce Carol 453pp 2001 about the human heart. Pen/Faulkner Award Winner, 2000. The chronicle of one family’s heyday and fall from grace. We learn of sixteen-year old Marianne’s date rape, and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS its devastating effects on the family and their ties with Coetzee, JM 156pp 1980 the upstate New York community in which they live. This novel is unanimously praised by critics for WHAT IS THE WHAT its portrayal of cruelty and courage. For decades, Eggers, Dave 475pp 2006 the magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring impending war between the The heartrending story of Valentino Achak Deng who barbarians and the Empire. A series of events jolts him was chased from his village in southern Sudan by rebel into sympathy with the victims. Booker Prize Winner, invaders when he was six years old. He, along with 1983. thousands of other boys, made the dangerous and painful journey walking across Sudan into Ethiopia where he spent a decade in refugee camps. He was eventually resettled in the United States where as a 41 year old, he narrates his story.

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WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT WHITE EARTH, THE Winman, Sarah 324pp 2011 McGahan, Andrew 376pp 2004 ‘God’ happens to be Elly Portman’s rabbit, given Set in the remote Australian Outback, the novel begins to her when her family is going through a difficult with the death of nine-year-old William’s father. time. Told in two parts, the 1970s and the 1990s, this William and his mother are forced to seek out the is story centred around the Portmans, Elly and her charity of his great-uncle, John McIvor, on what was brother Joe and parents Kate and Alfie. This is life in once a vast sheep ranch. McIvor enlists William to all its fullness examining family and friendship and work in a political party in which he is active, and the pain of growing up. Its eccentric and endearing whose policy it is to thwart the Aborigines’ attempts to characters guarantee an easy and refreshing read with recover ancestral territory. Recently passed laws entitle an intriguing hint of the unconventional. the native peoples to reclaim certain sacred sites. Concealed in the heart of his land, McIvor knows there WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES is a cave that harks back to the Dreamtime. Grant, Linda 260pp 2000 In 1946, Evelyn Sert, a young hairdresser from WHITE TEETH Smith, Zadie 462pp 2000 Soho, arrives in the Bauhaus city of Tel Aviv. Like many others in search of a new Jewish identity, she A comic epic that tells of three families: one Indian, experiences a city teeming with idealists and refugees. one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford, She changes her name to “Priscilla Jones”, and is from World War II to the present day. Captures the soon drawn into a world of shifting identities, lies and angst of life in an alien culture. secrets. Winner Orange Prize for Fiction, 2000. WHITE TIGER, THE O WHEN MADELINE WAS YOUNG Adiga, Aravind 321pp 2008 Hamilton, Jane 273pp 2006 Discover the raw underbelly of India, as revealed by To Mac, his tall sister, Madeline, never looked any Balram Halwai, an entrepreneur from Bangalore, once different to other children. Until one summer evening a servant in an poor village. Writing to the Premier of when his cousin Buddy taunts him with the odd truth China on the eve of his official visit to India, Balram of their family: Madeline is not really Mac’s sister, but shares his story, believing there is plenty Premier his father’s first wife. An accident had left her brain- Jiaboa can learn from him. Moving from the Darkness, damaged and in the years that follow, she is cared for (the rural hinterland) to the Light (the modern cities), by Aaron Maciver (Mac’s father) and his second wife. Balram exposes the shackles of the caste system and The novel chronicles the family through the decades, the endemic violence, poverty and corruption of the from Mac’s childhood to the Gulf War. world’s largest democracy. Written with sardonic humour, this is an engrossing portrait of modern India WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS and its harsh truths of injustice and power. Winner, Ishiguro, Kazuo 368pp 2000 Man Booker prize 2008. Chris Banks has dedicated his life to detective work, but behind his successes lies one unsolved mystery: the WHITE WOMAN ON A GREEN BICYCLE, THE Roffey, Monique 439pp 2009 disappearance of his parents when he was a small boy living in the International Settlement in Shanghai. The English newlyweds George and Sabina Harwood, story moves between England and China in the inter- starting married life in 1950s Trinidad, hit their first war period. A deliberate antithesis to classic English snag: George loves the place, Sabine does not. The detective fiction. marriage survives, but what follows is fifty years of endurance and adjustment to life as expatriates. Their WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED M O story is played out amidst the tropical splendour where Figiel, Sia 236pp 1996 racial tension, poverty and corruption rear their ugly heads, revealing the political history and growth of a A first book by this Samoan author who uses the nation moving beyond its colonial past. traditional storytelling form of suifefiloi to write of 13-year-old Alofa Filiga’s learning to come to terms with violence, womanhood, and her own personal search for identity.

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WIDE SARGASSO SEA WITNESS THE NIGHT O Rhys, Jean 151pp 1966 Desai, Kishwar 242pp 2010 Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole What really happened that night? Found alive in heiress, Antoinette Cosway, meets a young Englishman the smouldering |ruins of her family home, a young who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. teenager is the sole survivor. Accused of mass-murder, After their marriage, the rumours begin, poisoning her she is championed by a spirited and unconventional husband against her. Caught between his demands and social worker. Set in the Punjab, this is a complex her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is whodunnit revealing the prejudice and misfortune driven towards madness. that epitomises the fate of being female in a tradition entrenched society. Winner, 2010 Costa First Novel WINTER IN MADRID Award. Sansom, CJ 548pp 2006 WOLF HALL September 1940, the Spanish Civil War is over and Mantel, Hilary 653pp 2009 Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe. Into this uncertain Moving from the backstreets of London to the court world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man, of Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell was a self-made traumatised by his experience in Dunkirk, and now a man. In this epic work, immersed in the brutal world reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. He is sent of the Tudors, the author presents an entirely different to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old school perspective on this powerful courtier and his place in friend turned shadowy Madrid businessman and Brett English history. Rich in political and religious intrigue, finds himself surrounded by memories and involved in and with its large cast of familiar characters, Wolf Hall a dangerous game. offers an absorbing and original experience of Tudor England. Winner, 2009 Man Booker Prize. WINTER IN THE SUMMER GARDEN M Templeton, Natasha 320pp 1999 WORLD BENEATH, THE Kennedy, Cate 342pp 2009 Resident in New Zealand, but Russian-born, Templeton tells the story of the siege of Leningrad and the dreadful A hiking trip into the Tasmanian wilderness is intended events that preceded it through the eyes of the Shubin to be a journey of both discovery and rediscovery for family. An introduction also to the work of Russian Rick. This is the chance for him to connect with his poet, Anna Akhmatova. estranged daughter Sophie and to revisit the beautiful landscape where he met her mother twenty five WISH YOU WERE HERE O years earlier when they were protesting against the Swift, Graham 336pp 2010 building of a dam. It is in this majestic but unforgiving environment that past choices are questioned and The Luxtons have been Devon farmers for generations future paths determined. With its vivid portrayal but the changing face of the English countryside has of both landscape and characters, this is a riveting put paid to that. Jack (and his wife Ellie) now manage and insightful examination of family. Winner of the a caravan park on the Isle of Wight. When his younger People’s Choice Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards brother Tom is killed while fighting in Iraq, it is crisis 2010. time for Jack, a gentle man haunted by his past and the tragedies his family have suffered. Beautifully crafted WUTHERING HEIGHTS and with a subtle build-up of tension, this is the story Brontë, Emily 373pp 1847 of an ordinary man confronting grief and loss. Story of three generations of two contrasting families, WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and of the passionate George, Elizabeth 664pp 2005 love of Catherine and Heathcliff. The police never suspected a serial killer, until they found the fourth murdered boy — the first white victim — his body draped over a tomb in a London graveyard. Suddenly, a series of crimes and a potential public relations disaster have Scotland Yard on the defensive, scrambling to apprehend a maniac, while avoiding accusations of racism.

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YACOUBIAN BUILDING, THE H YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY Aswany, Alaa Al 255pp 2004 Eggers, Dave 350pp 2002 Meet the residents of the Yacoubian apartment To help cope with their grief at a friend’s death, two building in Cairo. Set in a cauldron of political and young Americans travel the world trying to give away social change, this is the story of their daily lives money to those in need. However, nothing is as it and preoccupations. The four separate narratives seems, and the result is a moving novel. (Included, is are seamlessly interwoven, providing a microcosm an additional insert written by the author in 2003.) of contemporary Egypt. Its colourful characters and candid servings of sex and religion create a Middle ZOLI O Eastern experience not to be forgotten. McCann, Colum 279pp 2007 The story of the Slovakian Roma from World War II through the establishment of the Communist bloc, and that of Zoli Novotna whose character is loosely YELLOW BIRDS, THE based on the Romany poet, Papusza. As 1930s fascism Powers, Kevin 226pp 2012 spreads over Czechoslovakia, Zoli and her grandfather ‘A yellow bird, with a yellow bill, flee to join a clan of fellow Romani harpists. She was perched upon my windowsill’, learns to read and write, later becoming involved with goes the US Army marching poet Martin Stransk. Her poems are promoted by cadence which dictates the beat Martin as the harbinger of a new Gypsy literature. The for its soldiers. John Bartle (21) Communist government, however, appropriates Zoli’s and Daniel Murphy (18), are about work for its project to assimilate the Roma. to be deployed to Iraq, but being taught a marching rhythm is one thing, and knowing what they will Z: A NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD face in combat is another; personal Fowler, Therese Anne 375pp 2013 experience will soon reveal the harrowing nature of what is expected of them. Both poetic and disturbing, ‘Behind every successful man there this is a remarkable story of friendship, loss and the stands a woman’, so the saying goes. unflinching realities of war written by an author who In this instance, it is Zelda, wife of himself is a veteran of the Iraq conflict. the legendary Scott who is emerging into the limelight. This is her story: her romance and marriage to the aspiring writer, and the high flying “This is both a very difficult book to read – and self-destructive life they lead to the also to put down!” full. It is glamour, it is tragedy, it “It is a book both within and beyond time, and is a time for breaking the rules and like many of the critics, I expect it will become Zelda breaks them all. With glimpses of the famous a classic of its genre.” celebrities of the day, through to the nuts and bolts “The writing is sensational, exquisite, delicate, poetic, of the literary world they inhabit, this is a captivating lyrical and transcendent. It crosses the and entertaining novel of the Jazz Age that gives voice boundaries between prose and poetry.” to an intriguing and complex woman struggling to establish her own distinct identity. [Small font] “This book is not for the faint-hearted.” BDS Reviewers “I found this a really fun book to read. It’s quite a light read that matures as Zelda does.” “I was captivated from the first page and caught up by Zelda’s wild and fun personality.” “I enjoyed the glimpses of famous personalities of the time – Cole Porter, Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway.” BDS Reviewers

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AGAMEMNON’S KISS ACROSS MANY MOUNTAINS Clendinnen, Inga 230pp 2006 Brauen, Yangzom 336pp 2011 This collection of nineteen essays encompasses This multigenerational saga relates the lives of a a diverse range of subjects. From history to race Tibetan family prior to the Chinese invasion in relations, from the craft of writing to those of a more the 1950s, to the present day. Recounted by the personal nature, Clendinnen’s observations and granddaughter Yangzom, this is the story of her reflections are topical and thought provoking. Written grandmother Kunsang, a Buddhist nun who with over a number of years, each essay is elegantly crafted her family fled from Tibet to India when the Chinese and impeccably delivered. arrived; her mother Sonam who marries a Swiss national after being brought up as a refugee in AGE OF THE WARRIOR, THE India; and Yangzom’s own life in Switzerland and Fisk, Robert 522pp 2008 New York. From displacement to assimilation, from cultural conflict to acceptance, this book records the A selection from Robert Fisk’s Saturday columns from challenges these women faced adjusting to changing the Independent from 1998 to 2007. Fisk is best circumstances while preserving their Tibetan heritage. known for his insightful, witty and always outspoken Translated from German. articles on international politics and war-torn recent history. These ‘Comment’ articles cover a wide array of topics, from his soldier grandfather; to handwriting; to “All found it fascinating. Some didn’t know much about the Titanic — and of course President Bush; terrorism; Tibet and the book made them want to learn more.” and Iraq. Upper Hutt 001 ALL BLACKS DON’T CRY “We all loved the book and the opportunity to learn M Kirwan, John 223pp 2010 more about Buddhism and Tibet.” Auckland 236 Aptly subtitled, A Story of Hope, this is the account of All Black John Kirwan’s experience of depression. “What a great story - recommended to every one.” Written in a simple no-nonsense style, it chronicles the Turangi 001 challenges he faced and overcame with the help of his “Generated lots of discussion. Lovely prose. A sad story.” family and friends. With its responsible observations and insights, this book provides useful information and Otaki 001 advice that demystifies this debilitating disease and “On the whole enjoyed by all with some enjoying it offers hope to those who suffer from it. A courageous immensely and others with reservations.” and inspirational read. Christchurch 116 ALL THE FISHES COME HOME TO ROOST Brown, Rachel Manija 323pp 2005 This is Brown’s witty account of growing up on an ashram in India. Somehow, she manages to keep her AFRICAN LOVE STORY, AN wits and humour about her when everyone else seems Sheldrick, Daphne 334pp 2012 to have lost touch with reality. At the local school, Mani Mao, as she is called, is endlessly taunted by her Born and bred in Kenya, Daphne Sheldrick is an schoolmates, and beaten by her teachers. She copes inspiring ambassador for the wildlife and endangered through it all by reading, and trying to emulate Indian animals of the continent she calls home. Entwined warrior-heroes throughout history. Ultimately, her gift with her personal story is that of the important and to tell a good story sees Brown through a traumatic ground breaking conservation and wildlife protection childhood. work carried out by Daphne and her wildlife warden husbands. This warm and captivating memoir reels in the reader with its fascinating information about animals large and small, but in particular, Daphne’s unique contribution to wildlife preservation: the hand rearing of orphaned elephants and black rhinos. [Small font]

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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE. AT HOME: A SHORT HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE Kingsolver, Barbara 370pp 2007 Bryson, Bill 700pp 2010 O Kingsolver describes her family’s adventure from Join Bill Bryson as he meanders from room to room suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia as they attempt in his Norfolk rectory reflecting on the history of each to live on a locally produced diet. Eager to prove for room and its contents. From bedbugs and dining themselves that a local diet is not just better for the etiquette, to sewerage and the advent of electricity, economy and environment, but also better on the the fabric of daily life past and present is brought table, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the family into focus. With its meticulous research, insatiable through the first year of their experiment. curiosity and engaging humour, ‘At Home’ delivers a fascinating social history of domestic life leaving no ANOTHER HOUR ON A SUNDAY MORNING O corner unexplored or dust mite undisturbed. [Big read] Scheeres, Julia 404pp 2006

Journalist Julia Scheeres remembers growing up with AUTO DA FAY M her two adopted (black) brothers in a fundamentalist Weldon, Fay 366pp 2002 Christian family in a 1970s rural Indiana landscape This is scriptwriter, novelist, journalist and feminist of cottonwood trees, trailer parks, and racism. Julia’s Weldon’s account of her life from the 1930s to the close relationship with her one brother, David, makes 1990s, from New Zealand to the UK. Love, sex, them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother and babies, blokes, poverty, politics, and not a few “Very a violent father only compound their problems. Famous Names” are covered. Eventually, Julia and David are sent to an unforgiving Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. Originally published as Jesus Land. BAD PHARMA Goldacre, Ben 430pp 2012 ARCANUM, THE O Gleeson, Janet 266pp 1998 From a workday headache to a life-threatening illness, the contents The 18th-century alchemist, Johann Bottger, was held of the medicine cupboard are captive by Augustus II of Saxon until he fortuitously there to cure all that ails us. But discovered the arcanum (or secret formula) for can consumers be confident that porcelain. Recently introduced from the Orient, “white the drugs they turn to are not gold” was quickly becoming the symbol of power, going to cause them more harm prestige and good taste in Europe. An investigation than good? From the trial and into the development of European porcelain and reporting processes to regulations the founding of the Meissen works in Dresden that and marketing, this book puts the combines science, adventure and industrial espionage. pharmaceutical industry under the microscope to answer this question. Supported by extensive research, ART OF TRAVEL, THE this is compelling and important journalism that De Botton, Alain 261pp 2002 examines and diagnoses the maladies affecting the De Botton writes an alternative travelogue. His industry as well as proffering the appropriate treatment companions are writers, artists and philosophers, to ensure consumers can make informed decisions. such as Gustave Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Charles Baudelaire, William Wordsworth, Vincent van Gogh and John Ruskin who give focus and direction to “Unfortunately this is not fiction. If it were it his journeys. A philosophical investigation into the would be some sort of background to a thriller.” motivations for travel. “This is information the general public should be aware of. After reading it the reader will have second ASK THAT MOUNTAIN M thoughts about taking any type of medication!” Scott, Dick 216pp 1975 “This book is really scary – in a good way! By the time I An account of the 19th-century Maori-European struggles finished it I was suspicious of every drug on the market!” at Parihaka in Taranaki, and the doctrine of passive “This book is excellent, but it may be too technical resistance preached by Te Whiti and Tohu. The book is or detailed for some.” illuminated by oral history passed on to the author. BDS Reviewers

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BAD BLOOD BEYOND RELIGION Sage, Lorna 287pp 2001 Dalai Lama, His Holiness the 188pp 2011 From a childhood of Gothic proportions in a remote A proponent of secular ethics, His Holiness the Dalai Welsh vicarage, through to Sages’ adolescence, leaving Lama argues that for a sustainable world future, in herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s. Sage brings both personal and global realms, compassion must to life a vanished time and place, and illuminates the be melded with reason and applied independently lives of three generations of women. A tale of thwarted of religious beliefs. Supported by a wide-ranging love, failed religion, and salvation found in books. reflection on the state of the world, the latest scientific knowledge and engaging examples and analogies, BATAVIA H this work offers much food for thought whether you Fitzsimons, Peter 490pp 2011 consider yourself a seasoned philosopher or this is On the 1629 maiden voyage by the Dutch East India your first foray into the subject. Easy to read, plenty to Company’s flagship ‘Batavia’, from Amsterdam to discuss. Jakarta (Batavia), disaster strikes. Not only is the ship wrecked on the Abrolhos Islands off the west coast BEYOND THE SKY AND THE EARTH of Australia, but worse is to follow: murder, mayhem Zeppa, Jamie 342pp 1999 and depravity. A brutal but fascinating account, this A rich and uplifting memoir of Zeppa’s three years on story recreates this dramatic and horrific episode in a teaching programme in Bhutan, the tiny Buddhist Australia’s past in a gripping blend of fact and fiction. kingdom south of Tibet. She gives an account of the Not for the faint hearted. Big read. difficulties and joys of living alone in an alien culture far away from the security of home in Canada, but BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS comes to be reinvigorated by the warmth of this Boo, Katherine 256pp 2012 country’s people. From its intriguing title to the vivid individuals who inhabit its pages, this is a book you will never forget. It tells the story of the people who live in Annawadi slum BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY, THE bordering the luxury hotels of Mumbai International Katz, Jonathan M 320pp 2013 Airport. The self-immolation of one of the women (Fatima), sets in play a series of catastrophic events When the 2010 Haitian earthquake struck, American involving her neighbours, highlighting the huge news correspondent Jonathan Katz initially thought challenges the very poor must negotiate to survive it was a truck going by, something that was part of and if at all possible, prosper. This fast-paced story everyday life he had experienced since living in the of contemporary India reads like a novel but reflects country. But a truck it definitely was not; from the meticulous research and journalistic dedication. moment of picking himself up from his collapsed Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction home through to his observation of the inadequate 2012. reconstruction efforts three years later, Katz turns his journalistic lens on this devastating event and its aftermath. Perfectly encapsulated by its subtitle BESIDE THE DARK POOL M Kidman, Fiona 301pp 2009 ‘how the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster’, this is a riveting account of international aid Covering the period 1958-2006, this is the second gone awry and a much misunderstood country. instalment of Dame Fiona’s memoir. Interwoven with personal history that reflects on influences and “It’s easy to read – by that I mean it’s well-written, experiences, it is also a social commentary of the but the content is very disturbing, especially the political and societal events of the era. From the political information.” Springbok Tour, Muldoon and Rogernomics, to an intimate perspective of New Zealand’s literary scene, it “The book is very well written and a riveting read, offers a recognisable overview of life in New Zealand. despite the sad subject.” Often provocative and evocative in turn, it is a candid “This is a very important book and it should and accessible account of a life well-lived. receive a wide readership. It could be a bit traumatic for Christchurch people.” BDS Reviewers

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BIG THIRST, THE BIG TWITCH, THE Fishman, Charles 402pp 2011 Dooley, Sean 322pp 2005 From the needs of the seven billion inhabitants of As a self-proclaimed twitcher — a bird-watching earth, to the demands of fuel hungry societies and extremist who travels around Australia trying to catch a widespread pollution, a substance essential to our very glimpse of as many species of birds as possible — the existence is under threat: water. Journalist Charles author pursued the goal of seeing seven hundred birds, Fishman plumbs the depths of the role water plays in and breaking the national record for the most birds our lives; how we use it, abuse it, allocate it and fight seen in one year. In this memoir, Dooley recounts his over it. Highly informative while entertaining and quest, including how he spent all of his inheritance to easy to read, this book considers water management make his dream a reality. in several countries as well as presenting constructive solutions to the water challenges the world faces. BOMB, BOOK & COMPASS [Small font.] Winchester, Simon 317pp 2008 Subtitled Joseph Needham and the Secrets of China, this is the story of one of the unsung heroes of science, and the country of his life-long passion. In his 24 volume magnum opus, this brilliant British biochemist BIRD SENSE and academic chronicled China’s scientific and Birkhead, Tim 224pp 2012 technological achievements over five thousand years, which included gunpowder, printing and the compass. Beyond the derogatory use of ‘bird An accessible writing style and impeccable research brain’ to the more complimentary makes this book a fascinating read for scientist and ‘bird’s eye view’, most of us give non-scientist alike. fleeting consideration to birds and their experience of the world. This eye-opening guide to all things BOOKING PASSAGE Lynch, Thomas 301pp 2005 ornithological is the answer to our avian ignorance. From the Lynch was born in USA, but, like so many Americans, promiscuity of the vasa parrot through his roots go back to Ireland. In 1970, Lynch visits the to the kiwi’s ability to smell earthworms through 15cm humble cottage in West Clare from which his great- of soil, this book is full of fascinating and often amusing grandfather had departed nearly a century before, and information and insights into the avian world. Supported meets his cousins and other relatives for the first time. by comprehensive research and delivered in an In the decades since, Lynch has returned to Ireland, accessible and engaging style, this book, in the process sharing stories and gaining wisdom. of teaching us about birds also teaches us about our own biological capabilities. BOOKSELLER OF KABUL, THE O Seierstad, Asne 276pp 2003 “You might have to be interested in birds to enjoy this Norwegian journalist Seierstad lived book, but I do love birds and I really enjoyed the book. with the Khan family for several It was so informative.” months, accompanying family “If you doubt whether you would enjoy this book, members to work, school, shops you can rest assured that there are plenty of laughs, and weddings. Her account of her especially regarding bird promiscuity!” life with them is full of the tragedy, “This is an interesting and easy book to read. The contradictions, rivalries, and the glossary and index are excellent.” frustrations of daily life for a middle- class family in post-Taliban Kabul. BDS Reviewers

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BRIGHT STAR: BEATRICE HILL TINSLEY, ASTRONOMER BORN ON A BLUE DAY O Tammet, Daniel 242pp 2006 Catley, Christine Cole 445pp 2006 M Daniel Tammet has Savant Syndrome, a rare form of Beatrice Hill Tinsley showed astronomers new ways Asperger’s Syndrome. He is able to do extraordinary of thinking and taught teachers new ways of teaching. calculations and has mastered more than seven A lover of nature and a conservationist who idealised languages. He also experiences narrow fixations, and New Zealand, she was also a musician, a feminist, a has an obsessive need for order. Yet, he overcomes battler for zero growth population and a champion his disabilities to live independently, and form lasting of the oppressed. Her life is a classic study in the relationships. The book explores what it’s like to be interaction of nature and nurture, genetics and special and, in so doing, gives us an insight into what environment. It is also an inspiring and unforgettable makes us all human — our mind. picture of a girl determined to be a scientist who grows up in provincial New Zealand and wins through to BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND, THE world renown. Kamkwamba, William 273pp 2009 BURYING THE TYPEWRITER This is an inspiring memoir from Bugan, Carmen 224pp 2012 Malawi, one of the least developed and most densely populated When you have to bury your typewriter in your countries in the world. William garden to hide it from the secret police then life is Kamkwamba came from an grim. But as Carmen Bugan’s father continues to take impoverished village affected by a stand against the Ceausescu regime in Romania (by the severe famine of the 2000s with producing anti-Communist leaflets), life becomes even hunger a constant companion and grimmer. It is imprisonment for him and ostracism no money available for him to be and intimidation for the rest of the family until they able to attend secondary school. Undaunted by these eventually arrive as refugees in USA. In this eloquent trials, William built a windmill from scrap materials and poignant memoir the author recounts the life of generating electricity for his village and thus changing a family suffering under a totalitarian system from the their lives forever. An uplifting story of contemporary unique perspective of a young citizen. Africa that is testimony to an amazing teenager’s determination to overcome adversity and never give CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS M O up. Tizard, Cath 350pp 2010 The Tizard political dynasty is headed by a woman BREAKING THE HABIT M many would consider a New Zealand matriarch, Dame Graham, Judith 154pp 1992 , formerly Mayor of Auckland and our Autobiography. In 1955, at 17 years of age, Judith first woman Governor-General. The daughter of left- Graham entered the Dominican Order and began her wing Scots immigrants, she grew up in a tiny life as Sister Stephen. In this compassionate, yet very town, and she personifies the New Zealand story: frank account, she recalls her years as a Dominican how talent and determination and a zeal to leave the nun during the repressive pre-Vatican II era. world a better place than you found it can take you to the top. This lively memoir captures her rich and BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF, THE remarkable life and is full of fascinating insights into Doidge, Norman MD 421pp 2007 some of the key social movements and political events and intrigues of our modern history. An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion CAVE IN THE SNOW that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. MacKenzie, Vicki 210pp 1998 It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Using personal stories Born in London during the Blitz, Tenzin Palmo (Diane from the heart of this neuroplasticity, Dr Doidge has Perry as she was known then), was inexplicably written an immensely moving, inspiring book that drawn to all things Eastern. At the age of twenty, will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, she entered a monastery in India, the only woman human nature, and human potential. among hundreds of monks. And so began her battle against the prejudice that had excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years. Palmo also spent

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12 years meditating by herself in a tiny cave 13200 ft CLEO: HOW AN UPPITY CAT HEALED A FAMILY up in the Himalayas. It became clear to her that the Brown, Helen 286pp 2009 M purpose of her life was to bring balance to Buddhism, and perhaps, to other religions, by ensuring that Cleo, an Abyssinian kitten, becomes a member of the women receive the same teachings and respect as men. Brown household not long after nine year old Sam dies in a road accident. Over the next 23 years, Cleo is an integral part of the family’s journey through grief and CHANGE FOR GOOD, A O M beyond. Whether you are a cat lover or not, this warm Thorp, John 183pp 2006 hearted story of love and loss is a delightful read. Research scientist John Thorp began life with the outward appearance of a female but with the mind CLOUD FARM M and spirit of a male. Although academically and Chetwynd, Jane 182pp 2004 professionally successful, the young Josephine (Jo) faced derision and isolation from society. When the Successful academic, Jane Chetwynd, purchased only escape from her lonely non-life seemed to be seemingly on impulse, a large piece of land on Banks suicide, she was saved by the love and support of Peninsula in Canterbury. With little purpose in mind partner, Joan, who inspired Jo to endure the operations but a real need to escape from what had become for and treatments to turn her into John. her an unfulfilling life, she set about with incredible tenacity, regenerating and developing the rugged land and making the house habitable. CHILD OF TIBET Yangchien, Soname (with Vicki Mackenzie) 184pp 2006 COCKEYED: A MEMOIR O The story of a young Tibetan woman’s flight to freedom. Knighton, Ryan 292pp 2006 Soname Yangchen was born in the Tibetan countryside during Chinese occupation. Her parents sent her to On his 18th birthday Ryan Knighton was diagnosed Lhasa for her own safety where she became a child with retinitis pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive slave, exploited and deprived of affection. At 16 disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision Soname risked death in a freedom trek across the and, eventually, total blindness. Blending mordant Himalayas but even after managing to escape, she wit with intense personal reflection, Cockeyed is the faced further dangers and heartache in India, being story of Ryan’s loss of sight. We follow his journey forced by poverty to give up her daughter. Soname from absolute denial – which lost Ryan his trousers, later met and married an Englishman and shifted to his girlfriend and, perhaps unsurprisingly, his driving England where her talent for singing was discovered. licence – to acceptance of life without vision and reliance on a cane. CIDER WITH ROSIE Lee, Laurie 231pp 1959 COLOR OF WATER, THE McBride, James 291pp 1996 Lee was a poet, novelist and screenwriter. This memoir tells us of his childhood in the remote Cotswold village Only two things mattered to James McBride’s of Stroud in the early twentieth century. He was raised charismatic mother — school and church. The true by his mother when his father left when he was three. story of a parent who dared to be different by marrying An exquisite farewell to boyhood, and an England that a black man, founding a Baptist church, and putting 12 has vanished. children through college.

CITY OF FALLING ANGELS, THE COLOUR: TRAVELS THROUGH THE PAINTBOX Berendt, John 373pp 2005 Finlay, Victoria 494pp 2002 The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of An account of Finlay’s quest to uncover the many 29 January 1996 in Venice, when a fire destroys the secrets hidden inside the paintbox. From mascara to historic Fenice Opera House. The loss of the Fenice, violin varnish, from nomadic carpets to stained glass, where five of Verdi’s operas premièred, is a catastrophe this is the story of the efforts of artists and artisans to for Venetians. Berendt becomes a kind of detective, reproduce the rainbow — and the impact their work inquiring into the nature of life in the city, while has had on the world. gradually revealing the truth about the fire. Berendt introduces readers to a cast of flamboyant characters, and a maze-like city where mysteries unfold.

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COMMON GROUND M O DEATH IN BELMONT, A Marriott, Janice & Pawsey, Virginia 239pp 2008 Junger, Sebastian 266pp 2006 and Virginia Pawsey went to school On 11 March 1963, the lives of three strangers — an together and then met again after thirty years at their African-American handyman, an Italian-American school reunion. They rekindled their friendship and began carpenter, and a second-generation Jewish housewife writing to each other, discovering in the process a shared — collide in a leafy Boston suburb. By the end of passion for gardening despite their having created two very that day, the housewife had been raped and strangled, different gardens: Janice lives in central Wellington and and the handyman arrested on suspicion of being the Virginia helps run a South Island high country farm. Their notorious Boston Strangler. But the killings continue. correspondence tells the story of their lives. Junger draws a vivid, shocking picture of the crime, and the tensions that surrounded it. COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES, THE Keneally, Thomas 509pp 2005 DEMON UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, THE Australia is the only modern society to have begun Hager, Thomas 340pp 2006 as a dedicated penal settlement. In this recreation Antibiotics, should we need them, of the first four years of the “Sydney Experiment”, are just a prescription away. But Keneally examines how a motley “thief colony” exiled this has not always been the case; by England as incapable of civilised development, not until the 1930s did the first not only survived, but flourished into a sophisticated, antibiotic make its way onto the modern society. world stage, ushering in the era of modern medicine. Chronicling the DANCE OF THE PEACOCKS M history and development of sulfa McNeish, James 472pp 2003 (the miracle drug in question) and Based on letters, diaries and interviews, McNeish the attendant fledgling pharmaceutical industry, this tells the stories of five young literary and intellectual book presents a riveting story of endeavour and the pathfinders — James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, Dan physicians and scientists involved in its discovery. Davin, Ian Milner, and John Mulgan who left New Both entertaining and informative, this story while Zealand in the 1930s. presenting the historical events that revolutionised the management of infection also considers the DAUGHTER OF PERSIA contemporary challenge of antibiotic resistance. Farmaian, Sattareh 534pp 1992 [Small font]

An account of the writer’s early life in her father’s “I found this a fascinating account of the development of harem in Persia/Iran, and her flight from the Islamic how the drugs were tested, things that went wrong and Revolution. the development of those large companies.” “I found it compelling and utterly fascinating but I think DAVID SUZUKI: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY you’d need to be interested in popular science.” Suzuki, David 210pp 1998 “The book is accessible to a wide range of readers Japanese-Canadian geneticist/environmentalist, David including those like me with no science background.” Suzuki, writes compellingly of racism, family, and the BDS Reviewers environmental challenges and opportunities he has seen throughout his travels as writer and broadcaster. Several chapters are devoted to his work among tribes DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, THE in the Amazon. Larson, Erik 495pp 2003 The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was one of the great DEAD MAN WALKING wonders of the world. Woven together, is the story Prejean, Helen 347pp 1994 of the architect, Daniel H Burnham who created the When Prejean was invited to write to a prisoner on incandescent “White City”, and the serial killer, HH Death Row who brutally killed two teenagers, she had Holmes who murdered a number of those drawn to little idea how much it would change her life. A nun’s Chicago by the fair. Set against the technological gripping, true story that is a powerful indictment of the marvels of a dream city, these two disparate yet death penalty. driven men turned the Chicago World’s Fair into their playground. 78 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Non Fiction A - Z

DEVIL’S CUP, THE Allen, Stewart Lee 231pp 2000 DOUBLE CROSS MacIntyre, Ben 417pp 2012 In this lively account, the author does his fair share of risk- taking to traverse several continents, chronicling coffee’s D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second civilising impact upon human endeavour since the World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also discovery of this elixir some two thousand years ago. An a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of appealing read to both coffee drinkers and others alike. deceit … At the heart of the deception was the ‘Double Cross System’, a team of double agents whose DIAL M FOR MURDOCH bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded Watson, Tom & Hickman, Martin 339pp 2012 in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong For years Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been Allied invasion force. These were not conventional hacking, spying, blagging, bribing and destroying the warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved evidence. They thought they were untouchable. They thousands of lives. Their codenames were Bronx, were wrong. This is the book that has exposed the Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle, and Garbo. This is their shadow state at the heart of Britain. Now fully updated story. [Taken from the book cover - Bloomsbury with the very latest News Corp scandal, it tells the story Books.] of how a criminal conspiracy involving politicians, the police and the press was revealed; the smears and threats “It is written like a detective story, not a history book they used to cover it up; the brave whistle-blowers who and it’s a real page-turner.” cracked open the case and what it now means for all of us. [Taken from book cover.] Small font. “There are so many astounding pieces of information. Real cloak and dagger stuff.” DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT “My husband has also read this book and he says it is a Fuller, Alexandra 310pp 2002 must! It could be more of a man’s book I suspect.” The author vividly recollects her extraordinary BDS Reviewers childhood in southern Africa where terrorism, curfews, ambushes and the AK-47 are part of the vocabulary of daily life. A story of bravado, driven by fire-in-the- belly love of Africa. E=MC² DOWN UNDER O Bodanis, David 330pp 2000 Bryson, Bill 389pp 2000 Generations have grown up learning that Albert Einstein’s This travel narrative from a veteran wanderer provides equation E=mc² changed the shape of our world, but an appreciative, informative and hilarious portrait of they never understand what it actually means, and how Australia. It’s all there: the convict history, the love/ it governs our daily lives today — everything from the hate affair with England, the vastness of the country, atomic bomb to a television’s cathode ray tube. In this and Australia’s most fascinating inhabitants. Bryson book, Bodanis writes the “biography” of one of the makes ordinary things seem exceptional. greatest scientific discoveries in history.

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER ELEPHANT, THE TIGER AND THE CELLPHONE, THE Obama, Barack 480pp 2004 Tharoor, Shashi 498pp 2007 The son of a black African father and a white American A collection of Shashi Tharoor’s previously published mother, Barack Obama searches for a meaning to his writing on modern Indian society. He begins by life as a black American. It begins in New York, where discussing the complex religious landscape of India he learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a – where Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and many other myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. religious groups co-exist and how this impacts the This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey — identity of the country. While he provides a carefully first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces considered examination of what it means to be Indian, the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and he is also a pop-culture junkie and he provides a then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his mixture of humorous anecdotes from his own life and family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and on India’s adaptation to life in the 21st century. reconciles his divided inheritance.

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END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB, THE O FAVORED DAUGHTER, THE Schwalbe, Will 336pp 2012 Koofi, Fawzia 266pp 2012 With a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Will Schwalbe From her childhood in a violent and sexist society, and his mother Mary Anne decide that during the to becoming the first female speaker of Afghanistan’s remaining period of her life, they will form an parliament, Fawzia Koofi’s life is an extraordinary exclusive book club of two. As they consume and story of courage, determination and perseverance. A discuss an impressive quantity of poetry, short stories leading candidate for the 2014 presidential election, and novels, Mary Anne’s life and her amazing work Fawzia’s achievements challenge the stereotypical view as a humanitarian is revealed. This book is both a of Muslim women and offer to her countrywomen the celebration of a life well lived and an examination of vision of a very different future. The combination of the inspiring power reading can play in shaping our personal story and political detail delivers a compelling lives. memoir of an inspiring woman and the country she loves. ESCAPE FROM BOSNIA: AZA’S STORY M (As told to Sue McCauley) FENCE AROUND THE CUCKOO, A M McCauley, Sue 240pp 1996 Park, Ruth 294pp 1992 The story of Brent King, NZ pilot sent as UN observer Memories about growing up in New Zealand in to Bosnia in 1993, and Aza Mehmedovic who King isolation and poverty during the Depression years. helps to escape from Zepa, a Muslim enclave under siege from the Serbs. This heart-rending telling of the struggle, starvation, and constant attacks on the enclave, as well as people’s bravery and FIX, THE resourcefulness in their refusal to be defeated, fills the Thompson, Damian 279pp 2012 reader with admiration. Whether it is the sweet treat that helps you get through the afternoon, EXPERIENCE that extra check of your email in Amis, Martin 400pp 2001 case there is a new message, or Novelist Amis writes with candour of his relationship more ominously, that latest bout with his father, Kingsley Amis, the process of writing, of unnecessary shopping, we are and his missing cousin, Lucy Partington (a victim of immersed in a world of addiction. serial killer, Frederick West). Arguing that addiction is a choice not a disease, journalist and FAMILY THAT COULDN’T SLEEP, THE recovering alcoholic Damian Thompson considers Max, DT 299pp 2006 western society and the part it plays in supporting our addictive impulses. With its enticing combination of For more than two centuries a strange, incurable personal story interwoven with solid research, this is a disease has haunted a family in the Veneto region of provocative and easy book to read. So pour yourself a Italy. Sleep becomes impossible, and after about 15 coffee, light up your cigarette and start reading! months, the victim slips into an almost coma-like state and dies. Until quite recently, doctors and medical researchers were baffled by this disorder, which affects “This book is one of the most thought-provoking about 40 families worldwide. Fatal familial insomnia that I’ve read in a long time.” is believed to belong to the same class of disorders “A easy and quick read, as well as funny and as mad cow disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) and thought-provoking.” chronic wasting disease. Its peculiarities may well “Interesting. It’s provocative, opinionated and shed light on neurodegenerative and neuromuscular well-written.” diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. A medical detective story. “He discusses all sorts of addictions and may have some readers squirming in their seats. (Email anyone? Facebook? How about a cupcake?)” BDS Reviewers

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FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER Ung, Loung 310pp 2000 FORT OF NINE TOWERS, A Omar, Qais Akbar 389pp 2013 During the Khmer Rouge’s reign in Cambodia, two million people perished. Loung Ung was five years First it was the Russians, then old and her family, middle class and privileged, were civil war, the Taliban and finally an anathema to the Pol Pot regime. This is their the Americans. Qais’ family, like courageous story that encompasses their dispersal every other Afghan family have to labour camps, Loung’s training as a child soldier, had plenty to contend with over the death of parents and the eventual reuniting of the recent decades. He is just a small surviving siblings. With its young narrator and its child when the Russians withdraw matter-of-fact style, it is a powerful and compelling but far from releasing the country reminder of the experiences of the people of from adversity, the hard times are Cambodia. just gathering strength. Forced to flee Kabul, the family traverse Afghanistan seeking FOOTPATHS IN THE PAINTED CITY refuge until they are finally able to return to the Shepard, Sadia 364pp 2008 capital, just in time for the arrival of the Taliban. Not for the faint hearted, this insightful memoir places Daughter of a white American Protestant father and a the reader firmly in the midst of a complex country Pakistani Muslim mother, Sadia Shepard travels to India and its people in turmoil; it is a story of survival and to make sense of her family’s startling background: resilience tempered by the saving grace of a strong her Muslim grandmother had begun life as a member and loving family. [Small font] of an Indian-Jewish community who believes they are descendants from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel “Outstanding. It’s a must-read. This is both a shipwrecked on Indian shores. Told with compassion beautiful and horrrific insight into the Afghan and humility, this is an unforgettable story of a young culture and its complexities.” woman’s discovery of faith, family and identity. “It’s not a book for the faint-hearted, but I think it’s a wonderful book.” “It’s a very inspiring book.” FOREST UNSEEN, THE Haskell, David George 270pp 2012 “The family stories told and activities shared are wonderful.” Just as the poet William Blake suggested the idea of seeing the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a BDS Reviewers wild flower, biologist David George Haskell presents a contemporary equivalent, focusing on a square metre of old forest on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Observed almost daily for a year, this FOX BOY, THE M O patch of forest teeming with life reveals the intricate Walker, Peter 342pp 2001 and complex nature of ecosystems and through a Walker undertook a memorable, personal journey philosophical lens, our place in the world. Blending to research the story of a young Maori boy, Ngatau current scientific thinking with a lyrical writing style, Omahuru (aka William Fox junior). Omahuru was this is a book to savour. abducted during the 1860s Taranaki wars, adopted by Prime Minister William Fox and raised as an English “This book needs to be read slowly and savoured.” gentleman. The author discovered, among other “It’s hard to imagine a better book of its kind.” things, the enmeshment of this little boy’s fate with seminal events in New Zealand history. “This book will be enjoyed by every reader who liked ‘The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating’ and ‘Flight Behaviour’.” FRED HOLLOWS: THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY WITH PETER CORRIS “There’s a huge amount of scientific/botanic M Hollows, Fred 262pp 1991 information, but the beauty of his writing leads the reader easily through to the end.” Opthalmologist Fred Hollows spent years improving BDS Reviewers the eye health of the Aborigines, and also worked in Nepal and Eritrea. His life story is related here by Peter Corris.

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FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN curse and their salvation. The family lived a nomadic Dalrymple, William 454pp 1998 lifestyle, moving among Southwest desert towns, and A rich stew of history and travel narrative spiced camping in the mountains. Her father was charismatic with anecdote, opinion and bon mots. In From the and brilliant; her mother creative, but unable to stand Holy Mountain, Dalrymple travels the Silk Route of the responsibility of providing for her family. Engaging ancient Byzantium through the present-day Middle and quirky. East, tracing the AD578 journey of John Moschos, the great Byzantine monk, traveller and oral historian. GOODBYE SARAJEVO M Dalrymple’s aim is to uncover the human archeology Reid, Atka & Schofield, Hana 339pp 2011 of Eastern Christianity. This is the story of a Bosnian family from Sarajevo. Written by sisters Atka Reid and Hana Schofield, GALILEO’S DAUGHTER it tells of the experiences of their family during the Sobel, Dava 420pp 1999 infamous siege. Hana was evacuated to Croatia as a The author based her book on the 124 surviving letters refugee while Atka remained in the city to care for her written to Galileo Galilei by his illegitimate daughter, other siblings. Eventually the family was successfully Sister Maria Célèste. While Galileo tangled with sponsored to come to New Zealand. More personal the Church and accusations of heresy, his daughter than political, it is a compelling account that depicts provided moral and emotional support, despite her not only the horrors of the conflict but also the reclusive life in a Franciscan convent — because redeeming qualities of courage, determination and she knew the strength of his faith. The letters are kindness that shine through these tragic events. integrated into the contextual events of the early 1600s-Renaissance Italy. GOOD WIVES? Forster, Margaret 343pp 2002 GHOST MAP, THE Forster compares her own marriage with those of Johnson, Steven 299pp 2006 her subjects: Mary Livingstone, who followed her London, 1854. A contaminated water supply, an missionary-explorer husband through Africa; Fanny, outbreak of cholera, two determined gentlemen and wife of writer Robert Louis Stevenson and their life in the birth of epidemiology. From opposite sides of the the South Seas, and militant Jennie Lee who married contagious disease debate, Doctor John Snow and politician, Nye Bevan. the Reverend Henry Whitehead eventually worked together to successfully pinpoint the source of the GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA, THE outbreak, forever changing the way the world would Xinran 229pp 2002 understand the spread of disease. Combining great Poignant stories told to and recounted by Xinran, host storytelling with dishing the dirt on the nature of of an evening radio programme in China during the epidemics and the implications for our modern cities, 1980s and 1990s. After moving to England in 1997, this is a compelling and accessible read. she found the freedom to write the book.

GIRL, A SMOCK AND A SIMPLE PLAN, A GREY GHOSTS M Daffey, Chris 256pp 2002 Challinor, Deborah 304pp 2009 A comedy memoir about the author’s quest to win over Based on interviews with New Zealand troops, the affections of a girl in grade six. A tale capturing historian Deborah Challinor presents the stories of the all the angst of pre-adolescent boyhood, and the ‘Grey Ghosts’, New Zealand’s Vietnam veterans talking idiosyncrasies of Australian suburbia. about their war. These compelling personal accounts are related along with the political and military GLASS CASTLE, THE background of a divisive period in New Zealand Walls, Jeanette 341pp 2005 living history. [Original publication, 1998 – this is an While Walls was living on Park Avenue covering the updated publication.] Academy Awards and attending black-tie parties at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her parents were squatting in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side. An unsentimental memoir by Walls whose parents’ ideals and non-conformity were both their

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HALF THE SKY HEART OF DARFUR M Kristof, Nicholas D & Wudunn, Sheryl 296pp 2010 Blaker, Lisa French 348pp 2007 According to a Chinese proverb ‘women hold up Working with Médecins Sans Frontières, New Zealand half the sky’, but in this book it is not a clear blue sky nurse Lisa French Blaker (South African born), arrives as you might imagine, but one filled with the dark in Sudan full of determination to use her skills to ease and ominous clouds of poverty, ill health and abuse. the plight of the hundreds of thousands of people Concentrating on Asia and Africa, and basing the caught up in the civil war raging through Darfur. stories on their newspaper columns compiled over The nine months she spends on the mission are the several years, journalists Kristof and WuDunn reveal toughest of her life, but she learns some fundamental the plight of many women in third world countries. truths about what people are capable of, both good Simultaneously horrifying and inspiring this is an and bad, and about herself. important book bringing to our attention not only the forces (cultural and political) that keep women HER LIFE’S WORK M O disenfranchised, but the possible solutions we can be Shepard, Deborah 328pp 2009 part of. Writer Deborah Shepard interviews five eminent New Zealand women: , , HANOI, ADIEU O Merimeri Penfold, Gaylene Preston and . Perkins, Mandaley 323pp 2005 All born in the first half of the 20th Century, these Michel L’Herpinière arrived in Hanoi as a teenager in women reflect on all facets of their lives, especially the years before World War II, and fell in love with the their journeys to prominence in their chosen fields country and its people. His story is entwined with the while juggling the demands of motherhood and history of Vietnam in those years: the French response family. These engaging and inspiring dialogues offer to the nationalist movement; the Japanese occupation; an important feminist perspective on ordinary women the rise of Vietminh and the refusal of the US to aid a aspiring to and achieving extraordinary lives. “colonial regime”, and the political vacuum, chaos and tragedy in the aftermath of war.

HARE WITH AMBER EYES, THE HISTORY OF SILENCE, A De Waal, Edmund 351pp 2011 Jones, Lloyd 270pp 2013 The hare with the amber eyes along with the other Told alongside the experience of 263 pieces of a netsuke collection, tell a remarkable Christchurch following the February story, that of its collectors, the Ephrussi family. Played 2011 earthquake, this is a memoir of out against the backdrop of a turbulent and dynamic the Jones family and the revelations Europe, this memoir traces the fortunes of this wealthy from its history that shake it to its and privileged Jewish dynasty from the 1850s to the core. Juxtaposed with the havoc present day. Rich with the details of the art and literary resulting from the seismic upheaval worlds of the time, it is a fascinating history of a family are the devastating events from weathering the storms of anti-Semitism and war. Costa the family’s past painstakingly Book Award Winner 2010. uncovered by the author, that create a compelling story of uncertain landscapes and HAVANA DREAMS shifting realities. Gimbel, Wendy 212pp 1998 “Complex and beautifully crafted.” Raised in the USA, Gimbel also spent many childhood “The writing is superb, the descriptions limpid, vacations in her father’s homeland of Cuba. Revisiting and the characters close to home.” in 1991, she searches in vain for the world of her grandmother’s time, recording the stories of some of “The writing is really beautiful. A fascinating memoir.” the “bourgeoisie” who remained in Havana, following “A compelling and masterful revelation of his past President Batista’s departure — their social context as well as a brilliant account of how the earthquake remarkably changed by the revolution. wrought havoc on the people of Christchurch.” BDS Reviewers

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HIDDEN LIVES Forster, Margaret 307pp 1995 I AM MALALA Yousafzai, Malala 276pp 2013 A memoir of Forster’s grandmother and mother, which reflects on the changes in women’s lives across three Malala Yousafzai captured the generations. world’s attention when she was shot by the Taliban in 2012 when HOUSE AT KARAMU, THE M she was fifteen years old, for Fletcher, Beryl 438pp 2003 fighting for the right for girls to be educated. From the remote Swat A poignant memoir covering 40 years of writer Valley in northern Pakistan where Fletcher’s life. Sent away at the age of six for a few she lived, through to the hallowed months to the House at Karamu, Fletcher discovered halls of the United Nations in books. Spanning her war-time childhood in New New York, after a remarkable recovery, Malala has Zealand, her early marriage and motherhood, and the continued her campaign advocating for universal growth of her feminist consciousness. access to education. Enhanced by the contribution of renowned foreign correspondent Christina Lamb, HOUSE BY THE DVINA, THE this is Malala’s story: powerful, hopeful and above all, Fraser, Eugenie 336pp 1984 inspiring. Fraser, daughter of a Russian father and a Scottish mother, writes of her life in Russia and her family’s “A wonderful story of courage and persistence that will touch readers of all ages.” escape to Scotland, after the Revolution. It is the story of two families, separated by culture and geography, “It’s a must-read. Really informative and but bound together by marriage. interesting to read.” “This is an interesting story, well told by Christina Lamb, HOUSE OF STONE so that Malala’s voice is never lost.” Lamb, Christina 290pp 2006 “A remarkable young person who puts a face on This book aims to tell the history of modern Rhodesia/ what is happening in the Muslim world.” Zimbabwe (from 1970 to 2006) through the personal BDS Reviewers stories of two of its citizens. Nigel Hough is the son of white farmers who attends the most prestigious private boys’ school in the nation, while Aqui grows up in a poor village where her family is considered well-off I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED O because the daughters wear shoes. Interwoven with Ali, Nujood (with Delphine Minoui) 188pp 2010 the triumphs and tragedies of their own lives is the tale of a country changing from white-governed Rhodesia The title says it all. This is the unforgettable account into an independent, hopeful Zimbabwe, and finally of the first child bride in Yemen to be granted a into the destroyed plaything of dictator Robert Mugabe. divorce. Receiving international attention, Nujood’s short and simply told story lays bare the customs, culture and circumstances that made such an event I IS FOR INFIDEL O possible. Co-author Denise Minoui sets this story in Gannon, Kathy 186pp 2005 context, highlighting the plight of these child brides. Western journalist, Kathy Gannon, witnessed the final collapse of communism in Afghanistan, the wars of “Fascinating story. Lead to a long discussion on honour.” the warlords finally driven from power by the Taliban, Dannevirke 001 the subsequent arrival of Arabs and exiles, and the “This book was a very easy read, but really interesting.” transformation of the country into the staging post for a global jihad. She also observed the terrible Morrinsville 001 consequences of intervention by the West and the “Electrifying subject matter but the book was too simple. mistakes made, and still being made, in dealing with It needed more research and more details.” this complex country. Lower Hutt 009 “Interesting and inspiring.” Timaru 016

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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE O Angelou, Maya 281pp 1969 Skloot, Rebecca 369pp 2010 An African-American poet’s memories of her childhood When Henrietta Lacks, a poor in the American South and early youth in North African-American died in 1951, she America. Angelou is one of the most honoured writers and her family had been unaware of her generation, being awarded over 30 honorary that cancer cells were taken from degrees and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. her body and cultured. From the development of the polio vaccine, to the effects of radiation and to more I SHALL NOT HATE O recent work of gene mapping and Abuelaish, Izzeldin 234pp 2011 cloning, these so called HeLa cells have revolutionised medical science and benefitted Overcoming humble beginnings in Gaza to study millions of people. This is the story of Henrietta, her medicine, Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish is a remarkable man. family and her immortal cells, generators of not only But it is not until three of his children are killed in an material for research, but large amounts of money. Israeli raid in 2009 that the world becomes aware of A fascinating and accessible read whether you are how truly inspiring he is. Despite this personal tragedy a scientific novice or guru. Winner of the 2010 he advocates for forgiveness and reconciliation to Wellcome Trust Book Prize. [Big read] be the only way forward for Israelis and Palestinians. Both riveting and heart-wrenching this story turns the IN MORAL DANGER H spot light on the struggles of daily life in Gaza and the Biggs, Barbara 346pp 2003 need for a very different future. An authobiography by Barbara Biggs, who at 14, was a runaway with nowhere to go. The book tells of her “This book generated more discussion than any book sexual abuse by one of Australia’s most successful previously read. Everyone enjoyed reading it.” criminal barristers, who had ‘purchased’ her from her Milton 002 grandmother. This begins her account of the damaging “Everyone agreed that this is an important book - after effects, and of the dark side of the permissive compelling, inspiring and an ‘eye-opener’.” seventies. An extraordinary family story told with Christchurch 071 black humour and unflinching honesty.

“We all felt more informed having IN SIBERIA read this extraordinary memoir.” Thubron, Colin 278pp 1999 Otaki 001 An examination of contemporary Siberia. Thubron “Outstanding. We all came away with a greater writes that he set out “to find a core to Siberia, where understanding of the conflict. We were amazed at his there seemed none”. He records his contact with a fortitude and unwavering message of peace.” wide variety of ordinary people as he travels in difficult Christchurch 316 places — from Rasputin look-alikes and religious shamans to Gulag survivors. Thubron’s conclusion is that “Siberia is more Russian than Russia is”.

IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Underwood, Terry 335pp 1998 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TREATY OF After corresponding for five years, Terry Augustus WAITANGI, AN M Orange, Claudia 345pp 2004 and her husband set up their home — a tent and newly drilled bore — in the middle of nowhere: A straightforward account of the history of the Treaty, Australia’s Northern Territory. Defying the odds of featuring a wide range of illustrations. The book covers climate, isolation and an unforgiving landscape, they not only the events of 1840, but also forces leading to established the cattle station, “Riveren”. the making of a treaty and the impact of the protests and negotiations that followed for the next century-and-a-half.

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IN THE SHADOW OF CROWS Manners, David Charles 333pp 2011 ISLAM Armstrong, Karen 192pp 2000 David and Bindra are on disparate journeys: David is English, searching for extended family on the Indian From the Prophet Muhammad’s sub-continent, while Bindra, a leprosy sufferer, is receipt of the revelations of the forced to leave her home in the Himalayan foothills. Quran 1500 years ago through One from a privileged background, the other from to a postscript featuring the 2001 poverty and deprivation but when their paths converge attack on the World Trade Centre, an extraordinary friendship is forged. From spiritual this guide examines the history beliefs and cultural practices, to chronic suffering and and development of the Islamic misery and the celebration of humanity, this is India religion. In offering an overview in all her magnificence and squalor. An insightful and that includes the effect of the memorable read. West on Islam and the rise of fundamentalism, it also includes possibilities for a INFIDEL: MY LIFE ‘way forward’. With supporting material in the form Ali, Ayaan Hirsi 353pp 2007 of maps, a glossary of Arabic terms, a list of key figures, a chronology and a list of suggestions for Born in Somalia and raised a Muslim, Ayaan Hirsi further reading, this book provides all of the detailed Ali escaped an arranged marriage and made a new information needed to counteract prejudice and life as a Dutch parliamentarian, championing the gain an understanding of one of the world’s greatest reform of Islam and its attitude to women’s rights. She religions. recounts her extraordinary transition from a third- world upbringing to her current status as one of Time magazine’s one hundred most influential people in the “It was just what I wanted - a short read that sets world. Small font. out the major events in Islamic history with enough mention of the major religious/spiritual IRAN AWAKENING beliefs and how they evolved.” Ebadi, Shirin 232pp 2006 “It could be a little basic for those with a better Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, understanding of Islam than I have. And of course it chronicles her childhood in an untraditional family, will be boring for someone with no interest in the topic.” her upbringing before the Revolution, her marriage “I think the book is very balanced presenting and her religious faith. Her memoir tells of her life as both sides of contentious issues.” a mother, bringing up daughters and as a lawyer and BDS Reviewers judge battling an oppressive regime in the courts. She became the first female judge in the country but when the religious authorities declared women unfit to serve as judges she was demoted to clerk. She eventually JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE fought her way back as a human rights lawyer, Tomalin, Claire 345pp 1998 defending women and children in politically charged cases that most lawyers were afraid to represent. The novels of Jane Austen picture a world of civility and reassuring stability, but her work also connected IRIS: A MEMOIR OF IRIS MURDOCH with some key events of the period. Sourcing local Bayley, John 294pp 1998 archives, Tomalin produces a picture of this author’s life, and English society at the end of the 18th century. Author and literary critic, John Bayley, was married to writer, Iris Murdoch. Before her death in 1999, JANET FRAME: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY she suffered for several years from Alzheimer’s. This M Frame, Janet 195pp 1984 memoir recounts in a moving, but unsentimental way, their life together. A three-volume autobiography of the iconic Janet Frame’s childhood in , her time as a student, a mental hospital patient, and later as an established author.

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JEWELS: A SECRET HISTORY KIDNAPPED IN YEMEN M Finlay, Victoria 496pp 2007 Quin, Mary 282pp 2004 Lift the lid of your jewel box and bring out your Quin recounts her experiences as a member of a favourite gems, you’re about to be dazzled by their group of tourists who are kidnapped by Yemeni rebels. seductive stories. From amber and jet through to Following their rescue (when four of the group are rubies and diamonds, in this extensively researched but killed by crossfire) this NZ born, American resident easy to read book, journalist Victoria Findlay explores returns to her high powered career in the USA. As the world of precious stones: their foundation, the part of her recovery from the ordeal, she searches for mythology that surrounds them, their history and their understanding of the kidnappers and their motives uses. A gem of a book. [Small font] which takes her around the world. It is also a journey of self-discovery culminating in a new very different JOE CINQUE’S CONSOLATION life in Alaska. Garner, Helen 328pp 2004 KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, THE In October 1997, a young law student made a bizarre Adie, Kate 438pp 2002 plan to murder her devoted boyfriend, after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests had Adie has reported from many of the world’s trouble heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe spots including Northern Ireland, Tiananmen Square, Cinque, though. He died one Sunday in his own and the 1991 Gulf War. She offers a compelling bed of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His combination of vivid frontline accounts and evocative girlfriend and her best friend were charged with writing, laced with the nitty-gritty of everyday life, murder. Garner followed their trials in the ACT and travelling the world by cattle truck and armoured Supreme Court. Australian. vehicle.

JOURNAL OF BEST PRACTICES, THE O KITCHEN MEMOIRS, THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS Finch, David 224pp 2012 Koea, Shonagh 187pp 2007 M O When David Finch is diagnosed with Asperger A memoir with a unique and quirky take on Koea’s syndrome, it is not a surprise to Kristen his wife of different roles in life, including daughter, wife, mother, five years. But what is a surprise is how this diagnosis journalist and novelist. This memoir paints vivid saves their marriage. Determined to be a better scenes from her life. It also provides a unique record husband and father, David starts taking notes (in his of New Zealand life over the past fifty years, and an distinctly excessive manner) and hence the ‘journal insight into the realities of being a writer, as well as of best practices’ is born. Not only is the reader detailing the inspiration behind her writing. exposed to the experiences of living with an autistic spectrum disorder, but also to the very essence of what LAST RESORT, THE O constitutes a good relationship. A warm, amusing, and Rogers, Douglas 378pp 2009 insightful memoir. While Journalist Douglas Rogers is off overseas seeking JOURNEY TO PRISON, THE M his ‘big story’, his parents are back home in Zimbabwe Lashlie, Celia 181pp 2003 living a ‘big story’: surviving in their war-torn country. Heart breaking and astonishingly funny in turn, this A collection of ex-prison officer and prison manager is the story of their determined struggle against the Celia Lashlie’s reflections and observations, based tumultuous Mugabe regime and all of the attendant on her fifteen years of experience with Corrections danger and upheaval. It is a vibrant and captivating in New Zealand. She discusses the origins of crime memoir providing a feel for the history and people of in New Zealand: the way we punish offenders, Zimbabwe that will remain with you long after you the effectiveness of prison, parental responsibility, finish the last page. the role of drugs, education, and state institutions. Underpinning her argument, is the need for the community to take responsibility for the incidence of crime in New Zealand society.

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LEARNING OUR LIVING M LANI’S STORY O Pountney, Charmaine 313pp 2000 Brennan, Lani with Hazel Flynn 281pp 2013 With fifty-five years of experience in NZ education, Before she was even a teenager, Lani Brennan had Pountney shares her “own educational journey and taken her first steps towards becoming an alcoholic. vision of how we could become a learning nation and By the time she was thirteen, an inevitable future why we should”. She offers suggestions on how to was mapped out for her: drug and alcohol addiction change schools and lives — and the world. and full scale domestic violence. But Lani with her Aboriginal and Maori heritage is a survivor, and her LETTERS FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS: M decision to become sober and see her abuser brought THE STORY OF MARIANNE WILLIAMS to justice through the Australian legal system not Fitzgerald, Caroline 270pp 2004 only turns her own life around but has a powerful In 1822, Marianne Williams, her missionary-husband, influence on others suffering from the same harsh Henry, and their three children left England for the Bay realities. Shocking at times but always compelling, of Islands. A year later, they arrived at a remote one- this is a disturbing story with a happy ending brought house settlement where they stayed for thirty years. about by Lani and her family breaking the cycle. Marianne’s letters to her family in England tell her “Hard as it was to read, it is one of the best books story. Her courage and uncomplaining determination I have read. Truly inspirational.” shine through as she describes, in vivid and compelling detail, the hardships and joys of their daily lives, their “Lani’s story of survival has been made into a relationship with Maori, and the battles between documentary which won a Media Peace Award for best different tribes. TV documentary – I think she’s an incredible woman.”

“Lani is very honest about the abuse and it makes LIAR’S CLUB, THE it tough reading, but it gives one hope. She turned Karr, Mary 320pp 1995 her life around – it can be done.” BDS Reviewers A funny, razor’s-edge memoir. Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, grew up in a swampy east Texas refinery town as part of a volatile, defiantly loving family. LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE, THE Theroux, Paul 353pp 2013 LIFE AFTER DEATH Echols, Damien 416pp 2012 Take one large continent. Start at the bottom, head up the left hand For Damien Echols, the so called ‘ring-leader’ of the side. Observe closely the people West Memphis Three, there is finally life to be lived and places you come across. after eighteen years on death row. Championed by Express your very definite opinions celebrities (including Sir and Fran Walsh) for others to ponder; such is the case before being released in 2011, Echols, and friends in this African odyssey from veteran Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly were wrongfully travel writer Paul Theroux. Setting convicted as teenagers of the murder of three boys in forth from South Africa, he wends Arkansas in 1993. Both an exposé of the American his way north sampling Namibia and Botswana on justice system and a raw and gritty memoir of a life the way before reaching his final destination, Angola. beset by many challenges, this is a surprisingly uplifting From slum dwelling to safari tourism, this story story of perseverance and hope in the face of bad odds. combines the exciting details of a travelogue with A powerful and unforgettable read. thoughtful commentary on contemporary Africa. LIFE IS SO GOOD “I very much enjoyed the book and feel it would Dawson, George 285pp 2000 repay a second reading.” Providing a window into the entire 20th century, Life “This is an interesting and well written travel Is So Good is a reflective look at a humble man who experience that would be enjoyed by older travellers.” has lived an understated yet fascinating life. This “This is not like a usual travel book of the Lonely Planet memoir of George Dawson, a black manual labourer variety, but is much more of a social commentary from who learned to read at age 98, is the product of a one erudite man’s perspective.” collaboration between Dawson and a high school BDS Reviewers history teacher. It gives a black man’s perspective

88 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Non Fiction A - Z of life in the American South during many of the LITTLE DAUGHTER significant events of the century. Although he endured Phan, Zoya 352pp 2009 hardship, Dawson’s positive philosophy has sustained A member of the Karen ethnic group, now based him to a ripe old age. in London and working for Burmese human rights, Zoya Phan tells her story: an idyllic jungle childhood LIFE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE’S, A O destroyed by the brutality of the Burmese army; life as Bennett, Alan 242pp 2009 a refugee in Thailand; and then as a student in the UK. Alan Bennett’s A Life Like Other People’s is the core of Though delicately written, it is a thought provoking his collection Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir and powerful story highlighting the Karen’s struggle for of his parent’s marriage and his own childhood, survival. recalling Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. With the sudden descent of his mother into LITTLE PRINCES depression and, later, dementia, a long-held family Grennan, Conor 308pp 2011 secret is uncovered in this heart-rending and at times A short stint in a Nepali orphanage develops into irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the something far more for American Conor Grennan. best-loved English writers. The children turn out not to be orphans but trafficked children, abandoned or on-sold after their parents LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S WIFE, THE M had originally paid for them to be taken to Katmandu Aplin, Jeanette 228pp 2001 for safekeeping so they would not be forced to join A classic New Zealand story of life on remote Stephens the Maoist army. Caring for the children is one Island, famous for its wildlife, and stronghold of the thing, risking his life to reunite the children with their pre-historic tuatara. Aplin reveals her struggles to families is another, and Conor is there, boots and all. live up to her high ideals, and “to be a good, true, Written with refreshing honesty, this is a captivating lighthouse keeper’s wife”. She brings alive a way of life story that engages the reader every step of the journey now gone forever. to take these children home.

LILLA’S FEAST “Universally enjoyed. Uplifting. Sensitively written.” Osborne, Frances 400pp 2004 Carterton 001 Written by Lilla’s great grand-daughter, the book “Our group unreservedly and unanimously enjoyed title refers to the cookery book written by Lilla while this book. It seemed to have everything.” in Japanese camps during WWII. Lilla and her Gore 001 identical twin, Ada, were born in China in 1882 and “Lovely story, really enjoyed by all.” her hundred years of life took her to Britain, India, and China during the Boxer Uprising, the Japanese Te Puke 007 invasion, and the Communist takeover. The story “Members thoroughly enjoyed this book.” describes her family, her husbands, her travels, and her New Plymouth 009 love of China, its food, language and culture.

LITTLE CRIMINALS M O Cohen, David 288pp 2011 When journalist David Cohen arrived at Epuni Boys’ LONG LOOP HOME M Home as a 13 year old in the 1970s, far from being Wells, Peter 315pp 2001 part of the residential system offering solutions to the A memoir that expresses how it felt to be a child problems of juvenile delinquency, Epuni was becoming growing up in New Zealand during the 1960s and part of the problem. This book examines Epuni; its 1970s. Wells is also known as a filmmaker with an eye history, its purpose, how it functioned on a day-to-day for telling detail and insight. Both he and his brother basis, and the societal context underpinning its ethos. dealt with issues of being homosexual, and “the With input from former residents and staff, Cohen inadequate ideas of time and place”. reveals its legacy: the nurturing of little criminals into big criminals, many who have become household names. A sobering and thought provoking social history.

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LONG SLOW AFFAIR OF THE HEART, A M LONG WAY GONE, A Ansley, Bruce 213pp 2008 Beah, Ishmael 229pp 2007 A memoir from writer Bruce Ansley documenting What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? his and his wife Sally’s year-long adventure buying a In this first-person account from someone who came canal boat in Holland and sailing it through Belgium through this hell and survived, Ishmael Beah, now to France. The author delivers not only a picturesque twenty-six years old, tells the story of how at the age travelogue but the more personal journeys experienced of twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and in trying to make a dream come true. Humorous and wandered a land rendered unrecognisable by violence. easy to read. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he LONG WALK TO FREEDOM was capable of truly terrible acts. Mandela, Nelson 768pp 1994 Nelson Mandela’s account of his life as a freedom fighter in apartheid South Africa. A readable and inspiring LOST DAUGHTER, THE Williams, Mary 300pp 2013 autobiography. (BDS Twenty-fifth Anniversary Book). From life in an impoverished Black Panther family, to life with the rich and famous, Mary Williams has seen it all. As a teenager she attended summer camps run by Jane Fonda and eventually came to live with LONG WAY HOME, A the family. Embracing the world that was then at Brierley, Saroo 256pp 2013 her fingertips, Mary studied at university, undertook Most people use Google Earth aid work in Morocco and Tanzania and faced the to check out the route to a new extreme demands of Antarctica and a solo traverse of address, but for Saroo Brierley it was the Appalachian trial. But there was a price to pay for to find his way home. Lost as a five being part of two disparate worlds; Mary also needed year old, Saroo traversed India on to accept the challenge of reconnecting with her a train and ended up on the streets conflicted past. Both interesting and insightful,this is of Kolkata before being adopted by a fascinating account of deprivation and opportunity, an Australian family. Twenty five and the importance of working out one’s place in the years later, after years of viewing world. satellite images and attempting to match them to the few visual memories he had, Saroo was able to return “It is encouraging to read how aid or care can affect to India to be reunited with his birth family. A simply the life of a child and enable it to succeed.” told heart-warming story, testament to the power of “This is a graphic description of childhood in extreme determination and perseverance. poverty and shows very clearly the advantages of money and position and white skin in the USA.” “The Jane Fonda connection was most interesting.” “Very interesting and easily read. Positivity “It gives an inside view of urban deprivation shines from every page.” that we seldom read about.” “The author writes simply and easily. It’s BDS Reviewers quite an emotional and moving story.” “This is a very heart-warming book because it’s a true success story.” MAGICIANS SON, THE M O “Truly an inspirational book with its focus on McCutcheon, Sandy 324pp 2006 perseverance, determination and above all, hope. New Zealand-born Australian broadcaster Sandy “Simply told, but a gripping read.” McCutcheon, was 48 years old when he uncovered BDS Reviewers some information about his background and birth parents. Even though his adopted parents had denied he was adopted, he always felt a sense of not belonging. Learning the circumstances of his birth and adoption, he discovered a family with uncanny parallels between its generations. 90 BDS Catalogue 2015 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Non Fiction A - Z

MALINCHE’S CONQUEST MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, THE Layton, Anna 235pp 1999 Winchester, Simon 338pp 2001 An imaginative, vivid reconstruction of a Mexican The fascinating story of an Oxfordshire blacksmith’s Indian woman who profoundly shaped New World orphaned son who discovered an unmistakable history and was then reviled for four centuries. In pattern in the rocks. From this, William “Strata” Smith Mexico, Malinche’s name is synonymous with developed the first true geological map following “traitor,” yet folklore and legend still celebrate her fossils and rock patterns, earning him a place in history mystique. The author traverses Mexico and delves as the father of modern geology. An account of a man into the country’s extraordinary past to excavate who crossed boundaries of class and science. the mythologies of this exceptional woman’s life. Malinche’s survived unimaginably precarious times MARRIED TO A BEDOUIN M O relying on her intelligence, courage, and gift for Van Geldermalsen, Marguerite 279pp 2006 language. Van Geldermalsen writes on her website: “This is the story of how I fell in love with Mohammad and married MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON’S CODES, THE Urban, Mark 348pp 2002 him; how I settled into his cave, and slept with him on a ledge under a sheet of stars; how I fetched water by A detailed, engaging and well-documented history of donkey, and ran the local clinic. It also describes the Wellington’s campaign in the Peninsula War between most recent history of Petra. Through our stories, and 1809 and 1813. It is also the story of George Scovell, the stories of the people with whom we shared the the officer who waged the intelligence battle against valley, comes a picture of the site when it was alive, Napoleon’s army to decrypt the French messages. and when I was married to a Bedouin.”

MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING MEMORY PALACE, THE Frankl, Viktor E 221pp 1984 Bartok, Mira 301pp 2011 A dispassionate account of this renowned psychiatrist’s When life with their brilliant but schizophrenic mother time in concentration camps during World War Two. becomes unbearable, sisters Mira and Natalia are From these experiences, he developed ‘logotherapy’, forced to sever all contact. Reconciled many years a therapeutic model encouraging the person to later, artist and writer Mira Bartók draws from her look forward to meaning in life in contrast to the ‘memory palace’ to tell the story of growing-up with retrospection and introspection of psychotherapy. a parent with a debilitating mental illness, and the Frankl’s classic bestseller (originally published in 1947) pain and heartbreak that led to their abandoning their continues to offer theoretical and practical insights for mother. Punctuated with Bartók’s original art, this is an finding meaning in one’s life experiences. exquisitely written memoir, compassionate, poignant and above all, testimony to the strength of bonds MAO’S LAST DANCER O between mother and daughters. Cunxin, Li 368pp 2003 This is the autobiography of Li Cunxin, who, as an MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD & EVIL eleven-year-old, was chosen by Madame Mao’s cultural Berendt, John 388pp 1995 delegates to be taken from his desperately poor village Literary non-fiction comparable to another true crime in northeast China to study ballet in Beijing. In 1979, story: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Berendt, an the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural unknown journalist from New York, befriends the exchange, only to fall in love with America — and with enigmatic, southern gentleman, Jim Williams. The an American woman. Two years later, through a series author leads us into Savanna’s culture and people, of cloak-and-dagger events, Cunxin defected to the US. interweaving the experience with a crime of passion. This is the story not only of a dancer’s coming of age in turbulent times, but also of individual strength, self- MILES TO GO M O discovery, and the triumph of the human spirit. O’Regan, Pauline 216pp 2004 A glimpse of one woman’s journey towards, what is often dismissed as “old age”, without acknowledging the wisdom that it can bring. Now, in her eighties, author and nun, O’ Regan, shows there is nothing to fear about ageing, and a whole lot to look forward to.

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MILLION LITTLE PIECES, A lives of village women. Offering the reader a unique Frey, James 513pp 2003 window into the experiences of West African women, this is an outstanding story of hardship, courage and When James Frey wakes up on an airplane with four hope and is aptly subtitled ‘an extraordinary story of broken teeth, a broken nose, a massive cut on his friendship in a midwife’s house in Mali’. cheek, and unsure where he is or where he’s going, he ends up in a Minnesota residential treatment centre. His memoir of drug addiction and recovery MOTHER TONGUE became a bestseller. Revelations about discrepancies Bryson, Bill 269pp 1990 between the story of his experiences in the treatment Entertaining, witty and informative account of the centre and his real life, sparked an international history and origin of the English language. debate about the fine line between fact and fiction. In January 2006, the author acknowledged the truth of MY LIFE IN FRANCE charges that details in the book were embellished or Child, Julia 352pp 2006 fabricated. Subsequent printings of the book contain an explanation to this effect. When American Julia Child arrives in France, little does she realise how her life is to change. Enraptured from the very first mouthful, Julia embraces French cuisine, MIRACLE IN THE ANDES Parrado, Nando 274pp 2006 rapidly becoming an international expert. Related with an infectious enthusiasm, this story not only documents In October 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan a passionate love affair with French cooking but draws rugby team crashed in the Andes. The story told by a the reader into a fascinating glimpse of post-war France journalist, became the subject of a well-known book and a life exuberantly lived. and film Alive. Now 30 years later, one survivor, Nando Parrado, writes of a harrowing life-or-death struggle, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT a tale of friendship, tragedy and perseverance as the Taylor, Jill Bolte 183pp 2006 survivors turned to cannibalism to survive and finally after 72 days were saved. When Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke, aged 31, she was in a unique position: as a brain scientist she was able to recognise and observe what was occurring. MISS TUTTI FRUITTI CONTEST, THE M Lay, Graeme 259pp 2004 Following emergency brain surgery, Jill embarked on the long road to recovery, all of which is clearly and A collection of South Pacific stories by intrepid traveller comprehensively documented in this story. As well as Graeme Lay. Islands where there are some of the most a guide for stroke sufferers, their families and carers, intriguing places on earth: sublimely beautiful, blissfully this book also offers fascinating insights into achieving remote, full of wonderful people and cultures – and a management of thought patterns and well-being. haven for bizarre misfits, would-be adventurers, and artists and writers in search of an earthly paradise. NANCY WAKE: THE INSPIRING STORY M O FitzSimons, Peter 310pp 2001 MITFORD GIRLS, THE Lovell, Mary S 611pp 2001 In the early 1930s, New Zealand-born Nancy Wake was enjoying a Bohemian life in Paris. By the end of A biographical saga of the dynasty of the English WWII, she was the Gestapo’s most wanted person. As Mitford family. Lord and Lady Redesdale, both a young journalist, Wake witnessed a horrific scene eccentric parents, had six daughters and a son. Their of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From then on, privileged background, a rich network of connections, she declared she would do everything in her power to and the political affiliations of their daughters, make for rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job, fascinating reading. [Big read] turned into a highly successful escape network for Allied soldiers. Wake’s network was soon doing so notoriously MONIQUE AND THE MANGO RAINS O well that she was forced to flee France to escape the Holloway, Kris 256pp 2011 Gestapo who had dubbed her “the white mouse” for her uncanny knack of slipping through its traps. When United States Peace Corps volunteer Kris Holloway is assigned to help in a village in Mali, her host is an exceptional young woman: Monique Dembele. In one of the poorest countries in the world, Monique is a midwife valiantly working to improve the

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NAVIGATION M NEVER HAVE YOUR DOG STUFFED O Cowley, Joy 202pp 2010 Alda, Alan 224pp 2005 Navigation is ’s story. From her childhood in Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells of his childhood 1940s Foxton, to family life, marriages and international spent travelling with his father’s burlesque company; fame as a writer, Joy takes us on a candidly told and memories of his dog, Rhapsody (before it was stuffed); often surprising journey. She touches down constantly coping with his mother’s mental illness, and the highs at her retreat centre in the Marlborough Sounds, where and lows of his acting career. This is a touching and she writes passionately about the seasons and the poignant memoir of a boy growing into a man, and natural world. Warm, sensitive and peppered with Joy’s events that would make him who he is today. irrepressible love of life, Navigation is a relaxed and beautifully written memoir. NICKEL AND DIMED Ehrenreich, Barbara 240pp 2002 NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE, THE Beer, Edith Hahn 305pp 2001 Journalist Ehrenreich goes under cover to investigate lives of low-paid workers in America. She tries to Born to a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family, make ends meet on the minimum wage, working as Edith Hahn was a promising law student until the a waitress, a cleaner, a nursing home assistant, and German annexed Austria. Taking on a shop assistant. Told with a potent combination of a Christian friend’s identity and documents, she humour and outrage. eventually married a Nazi officer. Outwardly, she lived as a Hausfrau, but after the Russians conquered and NINE PARTS OF DESIRE burned her neighbourhood, she retrieved her identity Brooks, Geraldine 255pp 1994 papers and diploma, and from an illegal fugitive was eventually transformed into a feared judge. The story of Brooks’ intrepid journey towards understanding the women behind the veils, and the NECESSARY APTITUDE, THE O often contradictory political, religious and cultural Ayres, Pam 404pp 2011 forces that shape their lives. Stunning vignettes of Muslim women. It took Pam Ayres a long time to discover what she loved doing best: making people laugh. Before the NINE LIVES comic verse and the public performing that she is so Dalrymple, William 284pp 2009 well known for, came the many years of dead-end jobs interposed with the excitement of travel to distant Subtitled ‘In Search of the Sacred in Modern India’. shores. Focusing on her early life, this humorous and A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese upbeat memoir presents an interesting commentary of invasion of Tibet – then spends the rest of his life post-war Britain as well as being testimony to never trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the giving up on one’s dreams. best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each NED & KATINA M Grace, Patricia 352pp 2009 one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Darymple delves deep This is the story of a soldier from the Maori battalion into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless and the young woman he meets in Crete in World War onslaught of modernity and the continuity of ancient II and brings back to New Zealand. From wartime to traditions. peace, the details of their full and happy life together are the backbone of this biography. Interwoven with NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND O Ned and Katina’s relationship are the experiences of Bryson, Bill 352pp 1995 the Maori battalion, life in Crete and the renaissance of Maoridom in the second half of the 20th Century. This Humorous account of a trip around Britain that long- warm hearted book not only celebrates the life of a time resident, Bryson, took before leaving for his native devoted couple but recalls the historic events in which America. Draws attention to the oddities of life in his they took part. adopted country.

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ON A SHOESTRING TO COORG OPPOSITE OF FATE, THE Murphy, Dervla 264pp 1976 Tan, Amy 398pp 2003 With her five-year-old daughter as travelling Amy Tan herself calls this a ‘book of musings’ where companion, the author, en route to Bombay, falls in she has combined many of her letters, essays, love with Coorg and records this account of a little- speeches, and journal entries into a witty and honest known part of the Indian sub-continent. memoir. She is best known for her novels (eg, The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club). The OPEN book covers the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, Agassi, Andre 386pp 2009 her relationship with her mother, choices she has taken in life and the misfortunes she has met along the way. It is shocking to discover that tennis great Andre Agassi hated tennis. With a refreshing degree of candour, ORDINARY MAN, AN this autobiography reveals the conflicted man behind Rusesabagina, Paul 264pp 2006 the outstanding tennis career; the pitfalls on the path to maturity, the dysfunction and the success, As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 and everything between. With its open and honest genocide, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, turned the disclosures, this is a fascinating story that will appeal luxurious hotel into a refuge for more than 1200 Tutsi to both tennis fans and those who have never graced a and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their court. would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. He tells the story of his childhood, retraces his path to heroism, revisits the hundred days in which he was the only one standing between his “guests and a hideous death”, and recounts his subsequent life as a ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK refugee and activist. Kerman, Piper 342pp 2010 Piper Kerman’s rebellious youth OTTO eventually catches up with her St Aubin de Terán, Lisa 512pp 2005 a decade after smuggling drugs Based on the true story of a revolutionary who was and she is sentenced to time in advisor to Castro, friend of President Salvador Allende the notorious Danby Federal of Chile, and married to a woman who became one Correctional Institute in Connecticut. of the leaders of the Kurdish rebellion in Iran. Code- Life as inmate # 11187-424 is in named Otto, he became an enemy of both the KGB and stark contrast to her usual privileged the CIA — all by chance, a twist of fate, or by someone existence but in rising to the else’s design. From the mountains of Venezuela to the challenge, she is able to offer a unique insight into life streets of Paris; from the heart of Cuba to rain-drenched on the inside. Told with honesty and respect for her London, this is a journey of the life and loves of an fellow prisoners, this is a fascinating story of actions astonishing man. and consequences and the hard road to rehabilitation. [Small font] OUR LAST BEST CHANCE Abdullah II of Jordan, King 324pp 2011 “A great book to discuss - is prison revenge or Written by Jordan’s reigning monarch and dedicated rehabilitation?” to the people of Jordan, this powerful memoir offers “I enjoyed the book very much - the tie-in with the reader an insider’s perspective to a tantalising the movie will be great for groups.” possibility: peace in the Middle East. With great clarity “A good read. She’s not a typical prisoner but and insight, King Abdullah provides the historical and we get a rare insight into prison life.” contemporary context to this window of opportunity. “The author’s honesty makes this book very interesting.” Along with an inspirational personal story that includes his unexpected ascension to the throne, this book lays BDS Reviewers bare the urgent challenges of the Middle East in easy to comprehend detail.

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PAULA PURPLE DANDELION M O Allende, Isabel 330pp 1994 Sultana, Farida 245pp 2011 When her daughter Paula, aged twenty-eight, sinks into At eighteen Farida Sultana enters into an arranged a coma, Allende commences the story of her family, marriage with a fellow Bangladeshi. Thus begins both to sustain her own spirits and to convey to her a journey that took her from Bangladesh to Iran, daughter the will to survive. Scotland, Borneo and eventually New Zealand. Subject to domestic violence and traditional cultural PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK, THE and religious expectations, Farida survived, going on Carhart, TE 242pp 2000 to help others in similar circumstances by establishing This engaging memoir recounts Thaddeus Carhart’s Shakti, an Asian women’s refuge in Auckland and experiences in a piano shop tucked into an out- advocating for the plight of many migrant and refugee of-the-way Paris street. Carhart provides technical women. Subtitled ‘a Muslim woman’s struggle against explanations on the workings and history of the piano, violence and oppression’, this is a harrowing yet and immerses the reader in Paris and the world of inspirational story. music lovers and their instruments. PURPLE HEART M O POLIO: AN AMERICAN STORY Fiu, Ta’afuli Andrew 319pp 2006 Oshinsky, David M 342pp 2005 Fiu candidly outlines life as a Samoan growing up in In both a gripping scientific suspense story and a New Zealand society. At the age of five in 1970, Fiu provocative social and cultural history, Polio relays and his family emigrated from Samoa, and settled in a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s. Auckland. At 14 years of age, Fiu is misdiagnosed Oshinsky tells the story of the polio terror and of the with the ‘flu, and his untreated rheumatic fever flares intense effort to find a cure, revealing professional up into heart trouble. Fiu embarks on a journey rivalries and clinical breakthroughs. through illness that will involve a world record of five open-heart-surgery operations. This honest and often emotional memoir is an almost accidental history of PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE Nicolson, Nigel 269pp 1973 New Zealand’s unchanged attitudes towards the Pacific cultures. The marriage is that of two writers Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson and the ‘portrait’ is drawn partly QUEST FOR ORIGINS, THE M by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left Howe, KR 239pp 2003 behind at her death in 1962, and partly by her son Nigel. Professor Kerry Howe traces dozens of explanations and theories of both pre-Maori and pre-European settlement of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and POWER OF HABIT, THE Duhigg, Charles 371pp 2012 assesses each one. At the same time he places them in their intellectual, historical and cultural context. The From the moment the alarm goes off in the morning book uses maps and illustrations and scholarly research to the click of the light switch turning off last thing at but is carefully written for a general lay audience and night, we are creatures of habit. Investigative journalist is not an academic book. Charles Duhigg is on the trail of the science behind habits; those of individuals, organisations and wider READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN society. Presenting the latest scientific discoveries Nafisi, Azar 368pp 2003 seasoned with fascinating stories, this book makes compelling and thought-provoking reading on a Part memoir, part literary criticism, Reading Lolita subject integral to our behaviour and the functioning of in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art, society. and its ability to change and improve people’s lives. In 1995, Azar Nafisi resigned her job as university professor and invited seven female former students to meet weekly at her home to study Western literature. They met for two years to talk and share, and “shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into colour”.

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REBEL WITH A CAUSE M SCANDALOUS LIFE, A Avery, Ray 268pp 2010 Lovell, Mary S 365pp 1995 When Ray Avery became the winner of the New Despite an aristocratic and privileged English Zealander of the Year award for 2010, it was the background the “wayward” Lady Jane Digby (b. 1803) first time many had heard of his remarkable life and chose a life less conventional than that of most women achievements. Born in the UK, Ray arrived in New of her time. After several marriages, scandals, and a Zealand in his mid-twenties. Having survived a lifelong search for love, she found, in her fifties, final traumatic childhood, he has gone on to achieve great fulfillment with a Bedouin sheikh, twenty years her success as a philanthropic scientist and inventor of junior. The reader gains a valuable glimpse into the medical devices for third world countries. This is centuries-old Bedouin tradition. an inspiring and heart-warming story of obstacles overcome, and opportunities embraced. Recounted SEARCHING FOR CHARMIAN in Ray’s distinctive style, this book is an enjoyable and Chick, Suzanne 365pp 1995 easy read. Chick’s search for identity begins at 48 years of age when she discovers her birth mother is Charmian Clift, RIDING THE BUS WITH MY SISTER Australian essayist and novelist of the 1960s. Clift was Simon, Rachel 296pp 2002 also married to writer George Johnston of My Brother Jack fame. This moving book unfolds Chick’s attempts Rachel Simon’s sister is a spirited woman who lives to comprehend the mother she never knew. intensely and often joyfully. Beth is intellectually disabled and spends her day “riding the buses”. SEVEN LIVES OF LADY BARKER, THE M Rachel reluctantly makes a commitment to join Beth Gilderdale, Betty 296pp 1996 for a few days each week for a year in an attempt to breach the distance in their relationship, and to gain The absorbing biography of Lady Mary Anne Barker, a some insight into Beth’s daily life. widely travelled, adventurous Victorian woman who lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, RUNNING IN THE FAMILY , Australia and Trinidad. Momentous historical Ondaatje, Michael 207pp 1983 events of the period are recorded with a degree of equanimity. Best remembered in NZ for her classic In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island book, Station Life in New Zealand. of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the heat and intoxicating fragrances of that “pendant off SHARON AND MY MOTHER-IN-LAW: O the ear of India”, Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the RAMALLAH DIARIES baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. Amiry, Suad 194pp 2005 Poetic writing about the place, and his extraordinary family. An irreverent account of Amiry’s experience of living on the West Bank from the early 1980s to 2004. Daily SAMUEL PEPYS: THE UNEQUALLED SELF chores, such as buying food and visiting friends and Tomalin, Claire 499pp 2003 relatives, become Herculean tasks for anyone living in a state of siege. Contains a diary Amiry kept during the A meticulous biography, capturing the life of Samuel Israeli invasion of Ramallah in March 2002 when her Pepys, the most famous diarist in English letters. 92-year-old mother-in-law came to live with her. Tomalin focuses on Pepys’ life and times, including plague, fire, war, peace, domesticity, ill-health and SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, A extended family — all coloured by Pepys’ own words Bryson, Bill 627pp 2003 as expressed in his journals. With an insatiable curiosity about the world around him, Bryson investigates seven topics of popular science, which cover the growth of scientific ideas from the earliest days to current cutting-edge quantum mechanics. Revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before, the author presents the themes in an easy to understand manner for the non- scientist.

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SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS, A O Morocco and the threshold of the Sahara Desert, on Wright, Ronald 211pp 2004 the way encountering an unexpected journey of self- discovery and awakening. The 20th century was a time of runaway growth in human numbers, consumption, and technology, placing SMELL OF AN OILY RAG, THE a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth M Simmonds, Cherry 432pp 2006 air, and water. The great question of the 21st century is how, or whether, this can go on. Only by understanding Cherry Simmond’s memoir captures 1970s New the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has Zealand as Cherry and her childhood sweetheart Eric repeated around the world since the Stone Age, can we plan to make a new life for themselves with their young recognise the experiment’s inherent dangers, and, with son, Richard. In 1972, the Simmonds’ family boarded luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. a Russian ship of dubious reputation for Auckland. Their first years here are typical of many new migrants’ SKATING TO ANTARCTICA a series of dead-end jobs, homesickness and hunger, Diski, Jenny 250pp 1997 living on the smell of an oily rag. Both an intimate memoir and a travelogue of Diski’s SOMETHING FOR THE BIRDS journey to the bottom of the world. The physical M Fahey, Jacqueline 208pp 2006 journey, with descriptions of the natural world, is intercut by another one that moves into the author’s An engaging memoir of the early life of artist and early troubled years with abusive parents, her own Auckland personality, Jacqueline Fahey. She traces drug use, and time spent in psychiatric wards. her roots from her childhood in Timaru back to her Irish ancestors, and describes her Bohemian life as SKIN TO SKIN M an art student in Christchurch and her marriage to Archie, Carol 279pp 2005 psychiatrist, Fraser McDonald. A tapestry of funny personal and family stories, this book also casts light Ten families, and 37 individuals; some well-known, on fascinating elements of New Zealand society. some not. This is a human account of modern Maori- Pakeha intermarriage and the mixed-raced children SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING, THE of Aotearoa. Their stories cover the spectrum of Bailey, Elisabeth Tova 183pp 2010 overcoming everyday racism to the question of identity in a diverse and multi-cultural land. As noted by Florence Nightingale, “a small pet is often an excellent companion”. Such was the case for SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS Elisabeth Tova Bailey. Incapacitated by chronic illness Cunningham, Laura S 240pp 2000 she was reduced to a bedridden existence with a small common woodland snail as her companion and A humorous memoir about growing up. Adopted by her eventually the focus for her in-depth scientific study of two eccentric bachelor uncles after her mother’s death, gastropods (snails). Part memoir, part natural history the author describes growing up in an unorthodox, but lesson, this book is a gentle and moving examination happy, Bronx household during the 1950s. of the profound connection between humans and nature. It leaves the reader an expert on snails, mindful SLIPSTREAM of the gift of good health and with the incentive to Howard, Elizabeth Jane 493pp 2002 look at the world anew. Winner of the 2010 National Howard writes that she has lived her life in “the Outdoor Book Awards, Natural History Literature, US. slipstream of experience”. Her memoir provides an unflinchingly honest view of her life, and outlines in SPILLING THE BEANS fascinating detail the literary world she inhabited. Wright, Clarissa Dickson 328pp 2007 Born into a wealthy but dysfunctional English family, SLOW JOURNEY SOUTH Clarissa became the youngest woman ever to be Constant, Paula 300pp 2008 called to the Bar in Britain. However, in her grief at In an attempt to break away from their conventional the sudden death of her mother, she descends into 9-to-5 routine, Paula and Gary Constant turn what alcoholism and bankruptcy. Through her passion for started out as an idle daydream of a “travel to end cooking she eventually achieved sobriety and peace as all travels” and turned it into an epic year-long 5000 part of the BBC TV partnership ‘Two Fat Ladies’. A ‘no kilometre walk from Trafalgar Square in London to holds barred’ account of an amazing life.

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SPARK, THE SPIRIT LEVEL, THE Barnett. Kristine 250pp 2013 Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate 375pp 2010 As with all mothers, Kristine Barnett Rates of teenage pregnancy, wanted her son to reach his full mistrust of neighbours and the size potential, but in Jake’s case, with of waistlines all have one thing in an early diagnosis of autism, it common: they are affected by how looked to be a limited potential. equal a society is. In this renowned Trusting her own instincts instead book, the English epidemiologist of the advice of the experts, Kristine authors draw together recent undertook to nurture Jake’s ‘spark’, research to provide understanding focusing on what he could do of how income inequality is instead of what he could not do, with extraordinary deleterious to everyone, including the wealthy. results. Teaching himself calculus in two weeks New Zealand with its increasing income disparity is and at age twelve becoming a paid researcher in frequently cited, but along with the litany of woes quantum physics, Jake’s trajectory is impressive. So associated with inequality are suggested positive too are the hope and care Kristine has been able to solutions. A new chapter written in response to give other families with children with special needs controversy generated by the book’s analysis, rounds when she established a pre-school that espouses the off discussion that convincingly addresses the aptly very same approach. This book is a truly inspirational named sub-title “why equality is better for everyone.” page-turner that demonstrates the power of love to A thought-provoking and socially responsible read. overcome adversity, and recognises that all children, [Small font] whatever their circumstances, have untapped potential. “This book was so interesting and very topical. I was shocked at how NZ’s equality and social problems compared with other countries.” “I couldn’t put this book down - it’s one of the most uplifting books I’ve read in a long time.” “Easy to read and well-researched.” “This book is so much more than just another book “Clearly not a book for everyone, but those who are about a gifted child. It’s a remarkable book.” interested in such books will find this one excellent.” “A story of self belief, self-sacrifice and determination. “Invites us to think about future policies. It’s very uplifting and the narrative compelling.” A very important book.” “I loved the book and now follow his progress BDS Reviewers via the Internet.” BDS Reviewers STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND M O Barker, Lady 238pp 1883 The fascinating account of Lady Barker’s three years on a sheep station in the foothills of the Southern Alps. Lively and astute, this is an evocative record of STASILAND early Canterbury and of a fascianting pioner. A New Funder, Anna 288pp 2002 Zealand classic. During its forty-year-history, the former East Germany was the perfect police state. The secret police, known STIFF as the Stasi, had organised a large army of citizen Roach, Mary 303pp 2004 informers. Funder, an Australian author, sets out to Mary Roach takes the age-old question, “What establish how it felt to live in “the most perfected happens to us after we die?” quite literally. And in Stiff, surveillance state of all time”. Her careful portraits of she explores the “lives” of human cadavers from the the people she meets, shine a dazzling light on one of time of the ancient Egyptians to current campaigns for the world’s most paranoid and secretive regimes, and human composting. Along the way, she recounts with its effects on contemporary society. morbidly infectious glee how dead bodies are used for research ranging from car safety and plastic surgery to the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.

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STORYTELLER: THE LIFE OF STUART, A LIFE BACKWARDS Sturrock, Donald 655pp 2010 Masters, Alexander 296pp 2005 Roald Dahl’s life is not unlike the stories he has gifted The story of a remarkable friendship between the to the world of children’s literature: extraordinary and author, a reclusive writer and illustrator and Stuart, a verging on the unbelievable. In this comprehensive chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know biography, Donald Sturrock presents Dahl’s fascinating during a campaign to release two charity workers from life, from fighter pilot to spy, from creative genius to prison. Interwoven into this is Stuart’s confession: devoted family man and mercurial friend. Widely the story of his life, told backwards. With humour, researched and meticulously referenced, it is a highly compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works readable book revealing a flawed but larger-than-life back through post-office heists, prison riots and the character: a storyteller extraordinaire. Big Read. exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons why he changed from a happy-go-lucky little STRANGERLAND M boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Drysdale, Helena 395pp 2006 Hyde personality. In 1834, 24-year-old Isabella Campbell left England SUM OF OUR DAYS, THE for India, and within two weeks of joining her brother Allende, Isabel 301pp 2008 in Bengal, had married his best friend, Charles Gascoyne, a cavalry officer in the East India Company. Structured as a letter addressed to the author’s daughter Twenty years later, the family embarks on a new life Paula, who died at the age of 28. Paula’s death and in the British colony of New Zealand. Isabella, who the yearlong coma that preceded it were the subject had been unwell, was sent back to England, while of Allende’s first memoir Paula. In this memoir, Isabel Charles went ahead with their nine children and their Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own governess. When Isabella rejoined them a year later, life in the wake of her tragic loss. Recalling the past she found the governess had taken over both the thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her household, and Charles’ heart. mother wrote to each other. She recounts the stories of the eccentric, strong-minded and eclectic tribe she has STREET WITHOUT A NAME gathered around her. Kassabova, Kapka 337pp 2008 SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE, THE Part memoir, part travelogue, this book provides a Winchester, Simon 207pp 1998 unique view of Bulgaria. Having left the country with her family, just after the fall of the Berlin A biography subtitled, The Tale of Murder, Madness Wall, Kassabova, a poet and writer, returns as an and the Oxford Dictionary. It tells about the many adult. Her remarkable understanding of people, her obsessions and dedication of lexicographers, including lively style and wry humour combine to produce a the work of two notable protagonists: the troubled captivating look at a nation and its people moving from American, Dr WC Minor, one of the most assiduous of communism to capitalism. the OED’s volunteers, and James Murray, the scholarly editor of The Big Dictionary. STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS Kidder, Tracy 284pp 2009 TELL ME I’M HERE Deveson, Anne 268pp 1991 It sounds like a made-up story: young man escapes from scenes of horror in genocidal civil war affected Deveson tells of the seven years of her son’s country, arrives in New York unable to speak English schizophrenia, and the fear and anguish which this and with two hundred dollars to his name; strangers condition produces in patients and those close to them. befriend him and support him to study as a doctor Women’s Rights Non-Fiction Award, 1991. at a prestigious university and medical school. This is the life of Deogratias Niyizonkiza who arrives in the United States from Burundi in 1994. This story considers the background to the Burundi conflict while serving testimony to the resilience of the human spirit, the power of hope and the kindness of strangers. An important book with a powerful and inspirational message.

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TIME TO BE IN EARNEST THOUSAND HILLS TO HEAVEN, A James, PD 266pp 1999 Ruxin, Josh 308pp 2013 Part diary, part memoir, PD James considers the Everyone has a different idea as twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th to what heaven is like but for birthdays, and recounts her long and remarkable career Americans Josh and Alissa Ruxin — from 1920s Cambridge schoolgirl to the “Governor” and their children, it is the name of the BBC, and her status as an acclaimed crime- they give to their restaurant in Kigali. suspense writer. While Josh is tackling Rwanda’s many public health challenges, TOAST Alissa is free to follow her foodie Slater, Nigel 247pp 2004 passion and in creating a gourmet dining experience she is able to Most of food columnist Nigel Slater’s childhood provide employment and training for the locals. The memories seem to be connected to food. Rice delicious food dished up at Heaven’s tables bears pudding, Sunday roasts, mince pies and toast all played testimony to hopeful new beginnings as Rwandans different roles in his life growing up in 1960s England, learn to live and work together again. Both inspiring but not all of those memories were happy ones. His and heart-wrenching with its stories of Rwanda’s memoir relates his formative years through individual recent past, this is a life affirming memoir of good anecdotes with a focus on food as he grew from a shy people working hard to make a difference. little boy, to a novice cook, to an eager disciple of a student at a culinary school with French pretensions. “A marvellous book. While its a memoir, it’s also a fascinating history lesson.” TOOTH AND NAIL M Findlay, Mary 267pp 1924 “A wonderful read. The narrative is a delight, written in a breezy and light-hearted style.” A New Zealand autobiography subtitled, The Story of a Daughter of the Depression. A teenage girl “I was surprised to find the book was inspiring and it filled one with hope for Rwanda’s future.” condemned by circumstances to fight tooth and nail for food and shelter. “A most enjoyable read. There was only one small part of the book that I found difficult to read.” TRIAL OF THE CANNIBAL DOG, THE M BDS Reviewers Salmond, Anne 491pp 2003 Salmond vividly retells the story of Captain Cook’s great voyages in the Pacific, focusing on the encounters THREE CUPS OF TEA between the Explorers and the Pacific Island peoples Mortenson, Greg & Relin, David Oliver 349pp 2008 they “discovered”. Salmond’s work reveals impressive anthropological knowledge, but also reads as a In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted sensitive exploration of personality. Winner of the into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Montana Medal for Non-Fiction. mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and TRUE RED M build a school. Over the next decade Mortenson built Isaac, Tuhoe ‘Bruno’ 166pp 2007 not just one but 55 schools – especially for girls – in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. This book explores the gang life of ex-Mongrel Mob Mortenson is a keen admirer of Sir . Gang Leader Tuhoe ‘Bruno’ Isaac and what it really took for him to leave that environment and find a TIGER LADIES, THE new life. In the Mongrel Mob for 17 years, Isaac was Koul, Sudha 330pp 2002 constantly living for the bash, beer and prison but the possibility of dying in a pool of blood eventually saw Through this personal and poetic memoir of her him search for another way of life. youth and young adulthood in Kashmir, Koul offers arresting glimpses of life before the region was torn apart by political forces and religious ideologies. She interweaves the story of her family with the myths and history of a rich society.

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TRUE TO BOTH MY SELVES TWELVE LITTLE CAKES, THE Fitzherbert, Katrin 302pp 1998 Dery, Dominika 349pp 2006 Katrin Thiele was made to conceal her German origins Born to Czech dissidents in 1975, Dominika Dery and never to mention her father — a former Nazi- grows up on the outskirts of Prague in a small village Party official and Wehrmacht officer — after being full of prejudices, politics, and petty informing. Largely “repatriated” to England. An insightful family memoir shunned by her parents’ association with the failed that delves into lesser known aspects of the German 1968 Prague Spring uprising, she seeks solace in her experience of two world wars. tight-knit family, the friendship of three old ladies she dubs her “fairy god¬mothers”, and her love of ballet. TRUTH AND BEAUTY A testament to a family’s will to survive through the Patchett, Ann 257pp 2004 final turbulent years of a terrible regime.

Patchett first met the poet, Lucy Greely, in college TWELVE MINUTES OF LOVE: A TANGO STORY and remained friends with her until Greely’s death. Kassabova, Kapka 319pp 2011 Mourning her best friend, Patchett writes of her memories of their devoted friendship, which survived From downtown Buenos Aires to the banks of the Seine, years of artistic, medical, economic and emotional Kapka Kassbova has danced the tango. But tango is upheavals. Using selections from Greely’s letters, never just about the dance, and here she takes us on Patchett writes of their shared lives in a moving tribute. an exhilarating journey across the globe in search of music, adventure, love and belonging. [Small font]

TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE TURNING POINTS OM Scott, Robyn 445pp 2008 Moon, Paul 264pp 2013 From the arrival of the earliest When Robyn Scott was six years old, her parents Polynesians through to the abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New introduction of MMP in the 1990s, Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of historian Paul Moon presents twenty Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly significant events that have left their left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes, mark on New Zealand society. A canoeing with crocodiles and breaking in horses in the chapter dedicated to the in-depth veld. In the shadow of one of Africa’s worst AIDS crises, exploration of each event and an this moving, enchanting memoir is an extraordinary easy-to-absorb style gives readers portrait of an unforgettable childhood. Small font. the best of both worlds: accessibility and substance. A thought-provoking read guaranteed TWO LIVES to springboard thoughtful discussion. Seth, Vikram 503pp 2005 An historical memoir that chronicles the lives of Seth’s Indian-born uncle, Shanti and his German-born aunt, Henny. Seth, at first a near stranger to his childless “A great source of discussion - what would be uncle and aunt, develops a rich and loving relationship on your top twenty events?” with them. Yet, despite their closeness, the author “A flowing, non-pedantic writing style that senses a reluctance in his aunt and uncle to speak of is wonderfully easy to read.” their past. Seth relies on his own research, interviews “It gives the reader plenty to think about.” he conducted with Shanti, and various pieces of correspondence to unearth their virtually hidden past. “I found it most enjoyable to think back on parts of NZ history - memories!” UNDER MY SKIN BDS Reviewers Lessing, Doris 419pp 1994 This is the first volume of Lessing’s autobiography (second volume is ‘Walking in the Shade’). Volume one begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949. About the evolution of her consciousness, her sexuality, and her political awareness. Distinctive and challenging writing.

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WALKING IN THE SHADE UNBROKEN O Lessing, Doris 369pp 1998 Hillenbrand, Laura 473pp 2010 The second volume of Lessing’s autobiography, From a delinquent adolescence to covering the period 1949 to 1962. This volume begins being the youngest distance runner with her arrival in London from Africa “with nothing in the Berlin Olympics, American but her son and the manuscript of her first novel”. We Louis Zamperini was destined for a learn of her involvement with communism, her love life of adventure. When his plane affairs, the struggle with poverty, and the difficulties of was shot down over the Pacific in single-motherhood. (Under my Skin, Vol. 1). Author 1943 while serving as an airman, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2007. what followed was a truly amazing story. Surviving 47 days marooned WATER THIEVES, THE M on a raft, existence in a Japanese Mahon, Sam 269pp 2006 POW camp and then back state-side for the challenges of post-traumatic stress disorder, Zamperini’s life is Sam Mahon, galvanised into action by rumours that distinguished by his unfailing determination to endure. the Hurunui River is under threat, agrees against his Not only is this a courageous story of attitude trumping better instincts, to become involved in local politics. circumstances but a unique insight into the wartime He embarks on a crusade that rivals the best of experiences of American soldiers serving in the Pacific Shakespearean comedy: he’s comically disarming, arena. yet often a blistering social satirist. His energy for sustaining the good fight is prodigious, his techniques for gaining media and political attention are hilarious, “This was an inspiring, well-researched and bloody-minded and bold. From pyrotechnics to mock well-written book that all of us thoroughly enjoyed.” funerals, from stabbingly witty speeches to asking Auckland 085 men in power to drink polluted river water, Mahon demonstrates all the qualities of a firebrand. “This book was incredible! Such a history lesso.” Christchurch 099 WAVE OF DESTRUCTION “All found the book riveting.” Krauss, Erich 244pp 2006 Suther 001 Krauss became involved with tsunami relief efforts, “A split decision - some didn’t get past the torture but those while travelling in Thailand when the last wave struck of us who did, found it a very uplifting book.” Southeast Asia on Boxing Day 2004. He met and interviewed four families around the village of Nam Dunedin 044 Khem who had miraculously survived the deadly surge, but with great losses. The book deals with the individuals’ stories and situations before, during and after the tsunami with eyewitness accounts from the VIOLIN LESSONS M O perspective of ordinary Thais. Zable, Arnold 288pp 2011 Linked by the common thread of music, this collection WE WILL NOT CEASE O Baxter, Archibald 189pp 1939 of ten non-fiction short stories takes the reader on a global odyssey reaching from Australia to Vietnam, The epic record of New Zealander Archibald Baxter’s Iraq, Italy, Germany, Poland and beyond. Ranging from brutal treatment as a conscientious objector. This is 1970-2011, these are stories of survival that celebrate an account of Baxter’s lonely fight against “the war to life while conveying the breadth and depth of the end all wars”. Baxter was arrested, sent to prison, then challenging experiences of each narrator. Whether it shipped under guard to Europe where he was forced is the asylum seeker who is shipwrecked or the young to the front line. Baxter’s influence, not least on his violin student in Melbourne, each story is complete son Terence, a conscientous objector in WWII, and on unto itself and a vivid reminder of the resilience of the his poet son, James K Baxter, continues today. Long human spirit. Sobering yet inspirational. regarded as a classic, his book is as relevant now as it was when first published.

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WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T RUN change. Always controversial, Maning’s adventurous Allison, Peter 239pp 2007 and tragic life is explored here by John Nicholson, a relative of Maning’s. All set for a brief OE, Australian teenager Peter Allison heads off to Africa only to have it turn into a prolonged OE when he becomes a safari guide in WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL Botswana. There are plenty of mistakes along the way Winterson, Jeanette 230pp 2012 but fortunately the advice of the title is heeded and Adopted by a fundamentalist Christian family in Peter lives to tell the tales of the fascinating animals the north of England, Jeanette Winterson endured and people he encounters. Settle back, put your feet a bleak childhood marked by a litany of abuse but up and immerse yourself in this warm and entertaining made bearable by an early and strong connection to story of Africa, animals and adventures galore. literature. Life became even more difficult when, aged 16, she fell in love with a woman, causing her adoptive WHERE UNDERPANTS COME FROM M mother to pose the question ‘why be happy when you Bennett, Joe 258pp 2008 could be normal?’ Focusing on her childhood and then the period later in her life when she is searching Settle back in your armchair and join Joe Bennett as for her birth mother, this is an absorbing story, rich in he sets off on a journey in search of the origins of fascinating literary detail and shaped by a painful past his cheap cotton underpants. His quest takes him to and the universal yearning for love and family. China, with a side trip to Thailand to check out the source of the elastic. Along the way he considers China: past and present, complex and contradictory, WILD MARY – A LIFE OF MARY WESLEY and a superpower in the making. Combining Bennett’s Marnham, Patrick 289pp 2006 trademark humour with detailed observation, this book Novelist Mary Wesley was born in 1912 into a is an entertaining and informative read. privileged family, but lived an unconventional life. From rebellion to free living, Mary’s bohemian WHITE BOY RUNNING existence provided much of the basis for her successful Hope, Christopher 272pp 1988 novels, the first being published when she was 70. This meticulously researched biography conveys the In a witty and sophisticated account journalist and essence of a spirited and fascinating woman, aptly novelist, Christopher Hope, chronicles his return named ‘Wild Mary’, living through changing and to South Africa, after twelve years of absence, for challenging times. the whites-only referendum of 1987. With a darkly satirical humour, he depicts the absurdities that are so frequently entangled with the horrors of repression. WIND FROM A DISTANT SUMMIT M Deavoll, Pat 264pp 2011 WHITE CARGO From New Zealand to North America and Asia, Pat Kendal, Felicity 319pp 1999 Deavoll has encountered many distant summits in her more than thirty years climbing mountains. But Reflections on the author’s early life in India and it is not just high peaks that she has conquered in the beginning of an acting career in 1960s London. her adventurous life: her battle with depression has Greatly influential were her parents who chose to tour required the same perseverance and determination a small theatre company through India, performing as her chosen sport. This is an engaging and moving Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde. story of the highs and lows of elite mountaineering and the remarkable achievements of an inspiring New WHITE CHIEF M Zealander. [Small font] Nicholson, John 256pp 2006 Frederick Maning arrived in the Hokianga region in WOMAN UNKNOWN, A: VOICES FROM A SPANISH the 1830s where he married a high-ranking Nga Puhi VILLAGE woman, and had four children. Maning recorded his Graves, Lucia 273pp 1999 experiences in the book, Old New Zealand, a classic of colonial literature. He advised Maori against signing A personal memoir of the daughter of poet, Robert the Treaty of Waitangi, but then switched sides to Graves. She spent her childhood on Majorca, and fight with pro-government Maori tribes during the war adult life raising a family in Catalonia. A unique in the north. Later, as a judge on the newly created and perceptive appraisal of a country burdened by Maori Land Court, his attitudes towards Maori began to tradition, yet coming to terms with political change as the decades move on. Open Books, Open Minds 103 M = NZ Interest; O = Larger Font; H = Explicit Content Non Fiction A - Z

WORLD’S STRONGEST LIBRARIAN, THE M ZEITOUN O Hanagarne, Josh 291pp 2013 Eggers, Dave 335pp 2009 Librarians are usually associated When Hurricane Katrina descends on New Orleans, with brain power not brawn, but Kathy Zeitoun leaves town with the children while in the case of Josh Hanagarne, it is her Muslim American husband Abdulrahman remains two for the price of one. In an effort behind to secure their business and properties, and to manage the symptoms of his once the levees are breached, to help in any way he Tourette Syndrome, Josh becomes can. Arrested by the National Guard, he is accused a weight lifter. This, in conjunction of terrorism and incarcerated without due process. In with his impressive height of 6’7” this astonishing narrative the author interweaves the and his chosen vocation at the Salt background of the Zeitouns with the shocking events Lake City Public Library justifies the of this disaster to reveal a family living the American title of the book. Touching on Tourette’s, libraries, faith dream transformed into a nightmare. A gripping and family, this is a refreshing and interesting memoir exposé that leaves you feeling hot under the collar from a man shouldering more than most. but reassured by the courage and decency of ordinary citizens. Winner of the American Book Award. “It’s an easy read, with a chatty style which tells the story without self-pity or mawkish sentiment.” “We had a very long and lively discussion and everyone really enjoyed the book.” “I found it a quick, enjoyable read.” Nelson 040 “An unusual approach and an unusual combination of topics. Mixed together it “Greatly enjoyed this book. Shocked that it could makes it even more interesting.” happen in the US, but so disappointed to read on the internet of what he’s done since.” BDS Reviewers Christchurch 099 “Members loved this book. Found it very thought- provoking and we learned lots.” Tauranga 014 WORST HARD TIME, THE “The treatment Zeitoun received after he was taken into Egan, Timothy 340pp 2006 custody was appalling. It’s a must-read.” The dust storms that terrorised the American High Plains West Otago 001 in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Egan tells of ZEN UNDER FIRE M their desperate attempts to carry on through blindingly Elliott, Marianne 279pp 2012 black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind Living in what is considered to be one of the most hope and endurance almost beyond belief. dangerous places on earth is not everyone’s cup of tea, but for New Zealand lawyer Marianne Elliott, YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE O it was the lure of her dream job that took her to Didion, Joan 227pp 2006 Afghanistan to work as a human rights officer for the United Nations. From liaising with tribal leaders and Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory warring factions, to battling bureaucracy and getting Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, to grips with local customs and protocols, the life of Quintana, fall seriously ill and placed on life support. a peace advocate is a constant challenge. In this very Days later, sitting down together to have dinner personal account of life in a war zone, the author not after visiting the hospital, John has a massive and only recounts the daily struggles of living in such a fatal coronary. In a second, a close and symbiotic high-stress environment, but the many difficulties faced partnership of forty years was over. This is Didion’s by ordinary people. An insightful and inspiring read. account of her grieving through the year to follow. [Small font]

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Title Page Title Page 10 PM QUESTION, THE...... 5 BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS ���������������������� 74 26A ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM ...... 9 BEL CANTO ��������������������������������������������������������������� 9 ABSOLUTION...... � 5 BELIEVE ME ���������������������������������������������������������������� 9 ABSOLUTIST, THE ������������������������������������������������������ 5 BELL JAR, THE ������������������������������������������������������������ 9 ACCESS ROAD...... � 5 BELOVED ������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 ACCORDING TO QUEENEY...... � 5 BESIDE THE DARK POOL...... ������ 74 ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, THE ����������� 5 BEYOND RELIGION ������������������������������������������������� 74 AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE ���������������������������������������� 5 BEYOND THE SKY AND THE EARTH ����������������������� 74 ALBERT WENDT’S SHORT STORIES, THE BEST OF ��� 5 BIG BROTHER ����������������������������������������������������������� 9 ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND �������������� 5 BIG THIRST, THE ������������������������������������������������������ 75 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ������������������� 6 BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY, THE ���������������������������� 74 ALL THAT I AM ���������������������������������������������������������� 6 BIG TWITCH, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 75 ALVA & IRVA ������������������������������������������������������������� 6 BILLIE’S KISS...... �������� 9 AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, THE � 6 BIRD SENSE ������������������������������������������������������������� 75 AMERICANAH...... � 6 BIRDSONG ���������������������������������������������������������������� 9 AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED...... � 6 BIRTH HOUSE, THE ������������������������������������������������� 10 ANIL’S GHOST ����������������������������������������������������������� 7 BLACK GIRL WHITE GIRL 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Title Page Title Page BURIAL RITES...... ������ 12 CORONER’S LUNCH, THE �������������������������������������� 16 BURYING THE TYPEWRITER ������������������������������������ 76 CORRECTIONS, THE ������������������������������������������������ 16 BY THE SEA �������������������������������������������������������������� 12 COUSINS...... 16 COVE, THE ��������������������������������������������������������������� 16 COWBOY DOG, THE...... 16 CAL �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 12 CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, A ���������������������� 16 CALEB’S CROSSING...... 12 CRIME STORY...... 16 CANNERY ROW ������������������������������������������������������ 13 CRIMSON ROOMS, THE...... 16 CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN �������������������������� 13 CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER ������������������� 17 CAPTIVE WIFE, THE...... 13 CROSSING TO SAFETY �������������������������������������������� 17 CARELESS...... 13 CROW LAKE ������������������������������������������������������������ 17 CASE HISTORIES...... 13 CRYPTOGRAPHER, THE ������������������������������������������ 17 CASE OF THE DEADLY BUTTER CHICKEN, THE ������ 13 CUBA AND THE NIGHT ������������������������������������������ 17 CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS...... 76 CURATIVE, THE ...... 17 CATCHER IN THE RYE, THE ������������������������������������� 13 CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME ���� 17 CAVE, THE ���������������������������������������������������������������� 13 CUTTING FOR STONE �������������������������������������������� 17 CAVE IN THE SNOW ����������������������������������������������� 76 CELLIST OF SARAJEVO, THE...... 14 DANCE OF THE PEACOCKS...... 78 CHANGE FOR GOOD, A...... 77 DARK ROOM, THE �������������������������������������������������� 17 CHILD OF TIBET ������������������������������������������������������ 77 DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE �������������������������������������� 17 CHOSEN, THE ���������������������������������������������������������� 14 DAUGHTER OF PERSIA ������������������������������������������ 78 CIDER HOUSE RULES, THE ������������������������������������� 14 DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW...... 18 CIDER WITH ROSIE ������������������������������������������������� 77 DAVID SUZUKI: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY ���������������� 78 CITY OF FALLING ANGELS, THE ����������������������������� 77 DAVITA’S HARP ������������������������������������������������������� 18 CITY OF THE MIND...... 14 DEAD MAN WALKING ������������������������������������������� 78 CITY OF TRANQUIL LIGHT, THE ����������������������������� 14 DEAD MAN’S RANSOM...... 18 CLAUDINE AT SCHOOL ������������������������������������������ 14 DEATH IN BELMONT, A ������������������������������������������ 78 CLEANER, THE...... 14 DEATH IN SUMMER ������������������������������������������������ 18 CLEO: HOW AN UPPITY CAT HEALED A FAMILY ��� 77 DEATH OF BEES, THE ���������������������������������������������� 18 CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A �������������������������������������� 14 DEATH OF VISHNU, THE ����������������������������������������� 18 CLOUD FARM...... 77 DEFENDING JACOB...... 18 COCKEYED: A MEMOIR...... 77 DEGREES OF SEPARATION...... 18 COLD MOUNTAIN �������������������������������������������������� 14 DELPHINE’S RUN...... 18 COLOR OF LIGHTNING, THE ��������������������������������� 14 DEMON UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, THE �������������� 78 COLOR OF WATER, THE ������������������������������������������ 77 DENNISTON ROSE, THE...... 19 COLOR PURPLE, THE ���������������������������������������������� 15 DEPARTURE LOUNGE...... 19 COLOUR, THE...... 15 DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, THE ������������������������������ 78 COLOUR: TRAVELS THROUGH THE PAINTBOX ��� 77 DEVIL’S CUP, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 79 COMMON GROUND...... 78 DEVIL’S MUSIC, THE...... 19 COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES, THE �������������������� 78 DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN ����������������������� 19 CONDITION, THE ��������������������������������������������������� 15 DIAL M FOR MURDOCH ���������������������������������������� 79 CONDITIONS OF FAITH ���������������������������������������� 15 DIGGING TO AMERICA ������������������������������������������ 19 CONDUCTOR, THE ...... 15 DINNER, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 19 CONFESSIONS OF MAX TIVOLI, THE ���������������������� 15 DISGRACE ��������������������������������������������������������������� 20 CONSTANT GARDENER, THE ��������������������������������� 15 DISTANT SHORE, A ������������������������������������������������� 20 CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, A ��������� 15 DOGSIDE STORY...... 20

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Title Page Title Page DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT ����������� 79 FORRESTS, THE...... 23 DOUBLE CROSS ������������������������������������������������������ 79 FORT OF NINE TOWERS, A ������������������������������������� 81 DOWN UNDER...... 79 FOX BOY, THE...... 81 DREAMS FROM MY FATHER ����������������������������������� 79 FRED HOLLOWS: THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY ������������ 81 DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE...... 20 FREEING GRACE...... 23 DUBLINERS, THE ����������������������������������������������������� 20 FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN, THE ������������������ 23 FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN �������������������������������� 82

FRUIT OF THE LEMON ������������������������������������������� 23 E=MC² ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 79 FUGITIVE PIECES...... 23 EASTER ISLAND ...... 20 EDWIN AND MATILDA...... 20 ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, THE...... 20 GALILEO’S DAUGHTER ������������������������������������������� 82 ELEGIES FOR THE BROKENHEARTED...... 21 GARDEN PARTY, THE...... � 23 ELEPHANT, THE TIGER AND THE CELLPHONE, THE ���79 GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS, THE ������������������������ 24 EMMA ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 21 GATHERING OF WATERS...... � 24 END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB, THE...... 80 GATHERING, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 24 ENDURING LOVE �������������������������������������������������� 21 GET ON THE WAKA...... � 24 ENGLEBY ����������������������������������������������������������������� 21 GHOST MAP, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 82 ENGLISH PASSENGERS ������������������������������������������� 21 GIANT O’BRIEN, THE...... � 24 EQUAL MUSIC, AN...... 21 GILEAD �������������������������������������������������������������������� 24 ESCAPE FROM BOSNIA: AZA’S STORY ...... 80 GIRL, A SMOCK AND A SIMPLE PLAN, A ���������������� 82 EUCALYPTUS ����������������������������������������������������������� 21 GIRL IN TRANSLATION ������������������������������������������� 25 EVERY LAST ONE ����������������������������������������������������� 21 GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, THE ��������������������� 24 EXPERIENCE ������������������������������������������������������������� 80 GIRL WHO PLAYED GO, THE ���������������������������������� 25 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE �������������� 21 GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING �������������������������������� 25 GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE...... � 25 GIRLS, THE ��������������������������������������������������������������� 25 FAMILY ALBUM...... 22 GLASS CASTLE, THE ������������������������������������������������� 82 FAMILY MATTERS ����������������������������������������������������� 22 GLASS PALACE, THE ������������������������������������������������ 25 FAMILY THAT COULDN’T SLEEP, THE ��������������������� 80 GO-BETWEEN, THE ������������������������������������������������� 25 FAMILY TREE, THE...... 22 GOD BOY, THE...... � 25 FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD ���������������������� 22 GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE �������������������������������� 26 FAREWELL SPEECH...... 22 GODWITS FLY, THE...... � 26 FAREWELL TO ARMS, A ������������������������������������������� 22 GOLDEN AGE, A...... � 26 FASTING, FEASTING ������������������������������������������������ 22 GONE GIRL...... � 26 FAVORED DAUGHTER, THE ����������������������������������� 80 GOOD EARTH, THE...... � 26 FEATHERSTONE ...... 22 GOOD TO A FAULT...... � 26 FENCE AROUND THE CUCKOO, A...... 80 GOOD WIVES? �������������������������������������������������������� 82 FINE BALANCE, A ���������������������������������������������������� 22 GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA, THE ��������������������������� 82 FIRST LOVE �������������������������������������������������������������� 22 GOODBYE SARAJEVO...... � 82 FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER ������������������������������ 81 GOSPEL OF JUDAS, THE ������������������������������������������ 26 FISH OF THE INLAND SETO SEA ���������������������������� 22 GRAPES OF WRATH, THE ���������������������������������������� 26 FIX, THE ������������������������������������������������������������������� 80 GRAVE TATTOO, THE...... � 26 FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR ���������������������������������������������� 23 GREAT GATSBY, THE ������������������������������������������������ 26 FLIGHT OF THE MAIDENS, THE ������������������������������ 23 GREY GHOSTS �������������������������������������������������������� 82 FOOTPATHS IN THE PAINTED CITY ������������������������ 81 GUERNSEY LITERARY & POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, THE ��27 FOREST UNSEEN, THE ��������������������������������������������� 81 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS ���������������������������������������������� 27

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Title Page Title Page HALF OF A YELLOW SUN 27 I AM MALALA ���������������������������������������������������������� 84 HALF THE SKY ��������������������������������������������������������� 83 I AM NUJOOD, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED...... �� 84 HAMILTON CASE, THE �������������������������������������������� 27 I DO NOT COME TO YOU BY CHANCE ������������������ 31 HAND ME DOWN WORLD...... 27 I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME ����������������������� 32 HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, THE ���������������������� 27 I IS FOR INFIDEL...... �� 84 HANDMAID’S TALE, THE ����������������������������������������� 27 I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS ���������������� 85 I SHALL NOT HATE...... �� 85 HANNA’S DAUGHTERS ������������������������������������������� 27 IDEA OF PERFECTION, THE ������������������������������������� 32 HANOI, ADIEU ...... 83 IF NOBODY SPEAKS OF REMARKABLE THINGS ����� 32 HARE WITH AMBER EYES, THE ������������������������������� 83 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TREATY, AN ��������� 85 HARLEQUIN REX...... 27 IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE ���������� 85 HARMONY SILK FACTORY, THE ������������������������������ 28 IMPERFECTIONISTS, THE ����������������������������������������� 32 HAVANA DREAMS ��������������������������������������������������� 83 IN DARKNESS...... �� 32 HEALING, THE ��������������������������������������������������������� 28 IN MORAL DANGER...... �� 85 HEART OF DARFUR ...... 83 IN MY FATHER’S DEN...... �� 32 HEART OF DARKNESS ��������������������������������������������� 28 IN SIBERIA ��������������������������������������������������������������� 85 HEART OF THE MATTER, THE ���������������������������������� 28 IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN ������������������������������������� 32 HEATHER BLAZING, THE ���������������������������������������� 28 IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE ������������������������������ 85 HEFT...... 28 IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES �������������������������� 33 HELP, THE ���������������������������������������������������������������� 28 IN THE SHADOW OF CROWS �������������������������������� 86 HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY ��������������������������������������� 28 IN THE SHADOW OF THE BANYAN...... �� 32 HER LIFE’S WORK...... 83 INDUSTRY OF SOULS, THE ������������������������������������� 33 HIBISCUS COAST ...... 29 INHERITANCE...... �� 33 HIDDEN LIVES ��������������������������������������������������������� 84 INHERITANCE OF LOSS, THE ��������������������������������� 33 HIRED MAN, THE...... 29 INSATIABLE MOON, THE...... �� 33 HISTORY OF SILENCE, A ����������������������������������������� 83 INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH...... �� 33 HOBBIT, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 29 INFATUATIONS, THE...... �� 33 INFIDEL: MY LIFE ����������������������������������������������������� 86 HOKITIKA TOWN...... 29 INTO THE DARKEST CORNER...... �� 34 HOMESTEAD ����������������������������������������������������������� 29 INVISIBLE MOUNTAIN, THE ������������������������������������ 34 HONEY GUIDE, THE...... 29 IRAN AWAKENING �������������������������������������������������� 86 HOPEFUL TRAVELLER, THE...... 29 IRELAND: A NOVEL ������������������������������������������������� 34 HOUSE AT KARAMU, THE...... 84 IRIS: A MEMOIR OF IRIS MURDOCH ��������������������� 86 HOUSE BY THE DVINA, THE ����������������������������������� 84 IS SHE STILL ALIVE?...... �� 34 HOUSE OF THE MOSQUE, THE ������������������������������ 30 ISLAM ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 86 HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE ������������� 30 ISLAND...... �� 34 HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE ������������������������������������������ 30 IT COULD BE YOU...... �� 34 HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, THE �������������������������� 30

HOUSE OF STONE �������������������������������������������������� 84 JAMES MIRANDA BARRY ��������������������������������������� 34 HOUSEKEEPER & THE PROFESSOR, THE ����������������� 30 JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE ����������������������������������������������� 86 HOW TO BE GOOD ������������������������������������������������ 30 JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, THE ���������������������������� 34 HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA ���������� 31 JANE EYRE ���������������������������������������������������������������� 34 HOW TO STOP A HEART FROM BEATING...... 31 JANET FRAME: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY...... 86 HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW � 31 JEWELS: A SECRET HISTORY ����������������������������������� 87 HUNGRY TIDE, THE ������������������������������������������������ 31 JOE CINQUE’S CONSOLATION ������������������������������ 87 HUNGER GAMES, THE...... 31 JOURNAL OF BEST PRACTICES, THE...... 87

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Title Page Title Page JOURNAL OF DORA DAMAGE, THE...... 34 LONDON: THE NOVEL ������������������������������������������� 38 JOURNAL OF MRS PEPYS, THE...... 35 LONG, LONG WAY, A ��������������������������������������������� 38 JOURNEY TO PRISON, THE...... 87 LONG LOOP HOME...... ��� 89 JOY LUCK CLUB, THE ���������������������������������������������� 35 LONG SLOW AFFAIR OF THE HEART, A...... ��� 90 LONG WALK TO FREEDOM ������������������������������������ 90 KEEPING SECRETS...... 35 LONG WAY GONE, A ���������������������������������������������� 90 KIDNAPPED IN YEMEN...... 87 LONG WAY HOME, A ��������������������������������������������� 90 KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, THE ����������������������������� 87 LONG SONG, THE �������������������������������������������������� 38 KINDNESS OF YOUR NATURE, THE...... 35 LORD OF THE FLIES, THE ���������������������������������������� 38 KITCHEN MEMOIRS, THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS ���87 LOST DAUGHTER, THE ������������������������������������������� 90 KITE RUNNER, THE �������������������������������������������������� 35 LOST WIFE, THE...... ��� 38 KNOWN WORLD, THE �������������������������������������������� 35 LOTTERY ������������������������������������������������������������������ 38 KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT...... 35 LOVE ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 39 LOVE AND MONEY...... ��� 39 LACUNA, THE ���������������������������������������������������������� 36 LOVE AND VERTIGO ...... ��� 39 LAMBS OF GOD ������������������������������������������������������ 36 LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE ������������������������������������� 39 LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, A ����������������������� 36 LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN, THE �������������������������� 39 LANDINGS...... �� 36 LOVING WAYS...... ��� 39 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS, THE ����������������������������� 36 LOWER RIVER, THE ������������������������������������������������� 39 LANI’S STORY...... �� 88 LUCKY BASTARD...... ��� 40 LARNACHS THE...... �� 36 LUMINARIES, THE...... ��� 39 LARRY’S PARTY �������������������������������������������������������� 36 LUMINOUS...... ��� 40 LAST OF THE WINE, THE ����������������������������������������� 36 LAST RESORT, THE ...... �� 87 MADAME BOVARY �������������������������������������������������� 40 LAST TRAIN TO ZONA VERDE, THE ������������������������ 88 MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD �������������������������������� 40 LAYING ON OF HANDS, THE ��������������������������������� 37 MAGICIANS SON, THE...... ���� 90 LEARNING OUR LIVING...... �� 88 MAJOR PETTIGREW’S LAST STAND ������������������������ 40 LET ME SING YOU GENTLE SONGS...... �� 37 MALINCHE’S CONQUEST ��������������������������������������� 91 LETTERS FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS: ...... �� 88 MAN IN THE SHED, THE...... ���� 40 LIAR’S CLUB, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 88 MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON’S CODES, THE ����� 91 LIFE AFTER DEATH ��������������������������������������������������� 88 MANGO’S KISS, THE...... ���� 40 LIFE IS SO GOOD ���������������������������������������������������� 88 MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING ����������������������������� 91 LIFE LIKE OTHER PEOPLE’S, A...... �� 89 MAO’S LAST DANCER ...... ���� 91 LIFE OF PI, THE �������������������������������������������������������� 37 MAP OF GLASS, THE ����������������������������������������������� 40 LIFEBOAT, THE...... �� 37 MANSFIELD...... ���� 41 LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, THE ������������������������������ 37 MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS ���������������������������������������� 41 LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S WIFE, THE...... �� 89 MAP OF LOVE, THE ������������������������������������������������� 41 LILLA’S FEAST ���������������������������������������������������������� 89 MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, THE ��������������� 91 LIMESTONE...... �� 37 MARCH �������������������������������������������������������������������� 41 LIFE AFTER LIFE...... �� 37 MARRIED TO A BEDOUIN...... ���� 91 LITTLE CRIMINALS...... �� 89 MASTER, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 41 LITTLE DAUGHTER �������������������������������������������������� 89 MASTER BUTCHER’S SINGING CLUB, THE ������������� 41 LITTLE FRIEND, THE ������������������������������������������������� 38 MATTER OF PARIHAKA, THE...... ���� 41 LITTLE PRINCES...... �� 89 ME BEFORE YOU...... ���� 41 LIVING IN THE MANIOTOTO...... �� 38 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA ������������������������������������������ 41 LOLITA ��������������������������������������������������������������������� 38 MEMORY...... ���� 41

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Title Page Title Page MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, THE ��������������������� 42 NEVER LET ME GO �������������������������������������������������� 45 MEMORY OF RUNNING, THE...... ���� 42 NICE WORK ������������������������������������������������������������� 45 MEMORY PALACE, THE ������������������������������������������� 91 NICKEL AND DIMED ����������������������������������������������� 93 MIDDLEMARCH ������������������������������������������������������ 42 NINE LIVES �������������������������������������������������������������� 93 MIDDLESEX ������������������������������������������������������������� 42 NINE PARTS OF DESIRE ������������������������������������������� 93 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD & EVIL ���� 91 NIGHT LETTERS...... ����� 45 MILES TO GO...... ���� 91 NIGHTS IN THE GARDEN OF SPAIN...... ����� 45 MILLION LITTLE PIECES, A �������������������������������������� 92 NIGHTWOODS ������������������������������������������������������� 45 MIRACLE IN THE ANDES ����������������������������������������� 92 NO GREAT MISCHIEF ���������������������������������������������� 45 MISOGYNIST, THE...... ���� 42 NOAH’S COMPASS ������������������������������������������������� 45 MISS CHOPSTICKS �������������������������������������������������� 42 NOT UNTRUE AND NOT UNKIND...... ����� 46 MISS GARNET’S ANGEL ������������������������������������������ 42 NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND...... ����� 93 MISS TUTTI FRUITTI CONTEST, THE...... ���� 92 MISS WEBSTER AND CHÉRIF...... ���� 42 OLD FILTH ��������������������������������������������������������������� 46 MISTAKE, THE ���������������������������������������������������������� 42 OLD SCHOOL ��������������������������������������������������������� 46 MISTER PIP...... ���� 43 OLIVER TWIST ��������������������������������������������������������� 46 MITFORD GIRLS, THE ���������������������������������������������� 92 ON A SHOESTRING TO COORG ���������������������������� 94 MOBY DICK ������������������������������������������������������������� 43 ON BEAUTY ������������������������������������������������������������ 46 MOLOKA’I ��������������������������������������������������������������� 43 ON CANAAN’S SIDE...... ����� 46 MONIQUE AND THE MANGO RAINS...... ���� 92 ON CHESIL BEACH �������������������������������������������������� 46 MONTANA 1948 ����������������������������������������������������� 43 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH �������� 46 MORAL HAZARD ���������������������������������������������������� 43 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE ������������������ 47 MORNINGS IN JENIN ���������������������������������������������� 43 OPEN ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 94 MORTMAIN ...... ���� 43 OPIUM CLERK, THE ������������������������������������������������� 47 MOTHER TONGUE �������������������������������������������������� 92 OPPORTUNITY...... ����� 47 MR ALLBONES’ FERRETS...... ���� 43 OPPOSITE OF FATE, THE ����������������������������������������� 94 MR DARWIN’S SHOOTER ��������������������������������������� 43 ORACLE NIGHT ������������������������������������������������������� 47 MR ROSENBLUM’S LIST ������������������������������������������ 44 ORACLES AND MIRACLES...... ����� 47 MRS COOK �������������������������������������������������������������� 44 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK ��������������������������������� 94 MRS DALLOWAY ����������������������������������������������������� 44 ORCHARDIST, THE �������������������������������������������������� 47 MUDBOUND...... ���� 44 ORDINARY MAN, AN ���������������������������������������������� 94 MURDER AT MANSFIELD PARK...... ���� 44 ORLANDO ��������������������������������������������������������������� 47 MUSIC AND SILENCE ���������������������������������������������� 44 ORYX AND CRAKE �������������������������������������������������� 47 MY LIFE IN FRANCE ������������������������������������������������� 92 OTHER HAND, THE...... ����� 46 MY NAME WAS JUDAS...... ���� 44 OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, THE ������������������������� 48 MY SISTER’S KEEPER ������������������������������������������������ 44 OTTO ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 94 MY STROKE OF INSIGHT ���������������������������������������� 92 OUR LAST BEST CHANCE ��������������������������������������� 94 MY YEAR OF MEAT �������������������������������������������������� 44 OWEN MARSHALL’S SHORT STORIES, THE BEST OF ��48 OWLS DO CRY...... ����� 48 NAMES OF THINGS, THE...... �� 45 NAMESAKE, THE ������������������������������������������������������ 45 NANCY WAKE: THE INSPIRING STORY...... �� 92 PAINTED DRUM, THE ���������������������������������������������� 48 NAVIGATION ...... �� 93 PAINTER, THE ���������������������������������������������������������� 48 NAZI OFFICER’S WIFE, THE ������������������������������������� 93 PARIS WIFE, THE...... ����� 48 NECESSARY APTITUDE, THE...... �� 93 PARTIAL HISTORY OF LOST CAUSES, A ������������������ 48 NED & KATINA...... �� 93 PASSAGE TO INDIA, A ��������������������������������������������� 48 NERVOUS CONDITIONS ���������������������������������������� 45 PAUA TOWER, THE...... ����� 49 NEVER HAVE YOUR DOG STUFFED...... �� 93 PAULA ��������������������������������������������������������������������� 95

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Title Page Title Page PEACE LIKE A RIVER ������������������������������������������������� 49 RIDERS, THE ������������������������������������������������������������ 53 PEACHES FOR MONSIEUR LE CURÉ...... ����� 49 RIDING THE BUS WITH MY SISTER ������������������������� 96 PEDRO PARAMO ����������������������������������������������������� 49 RISK...... ���� 53 PEPPERED MOTH, THE �������������������������������������������� 49 ROAD TO URBINO, THE...... ���� 53 PERFECTLY GOOD MAN, A...... ����� 49 ROAD, THE...... ���� 54 PERFUME COLLECTOR, THE...... ����� 49 ROAD HOME, THE �������������������������������������������������� 54 PERLA...... ����� 50 ROOM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� 54 PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE, THE ��� 50 ROOM WITH A VIEW, A ������������������������������������������ 54 PHOTOGRAPHER’S WIFE, THE �������������������������������� 50 ROSIE PROJECT, THE...... ���� 54 PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK, THE ����������������� 95 ROUND HOUSE, THE...... ���� 54 PICKUP, THE ������������������������������������������������������������ 50 RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING ���������������������������� 55 PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK ����������������������������������� 50 RULES OF CIVILITY...... ���� 55 PIGEON ENGLISH ��������������������������������������������������� 50 RUN...... ���� 55 PLAGUE, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 50 RUNNING IN THE FAMILY �������������������������������������� 96 PLEASE DON’T COME BACK FROM THE MOON ��� 50 RUNNING THE RIFT ������������������������������������������������ 55 PLEASE, MR EINSTEIN ���������������������������������������������� 50 PLUMB...... ����� 51 SACRED ART OF STEALING, THE...... ���� 55 POISONWOOD BIBLE, THE ������������������������������������ 51 SACRED HUNGER �������������������������������������������������� 55 POLIO: AN AMERICAN STORY �������������������������������� 95 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN �������������������������� 56 PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE ������������������������������������ 95 POSSIBLE LIFE, A ����������������������������������������������������� 51 SAMUEL PEPYS: THE UNEQUALLED SELF ��������������� 96 POSTCARDS ������������������������������������������������������������ 51 SARAH THORNHILL...... ���� 56 POTIKI...... ����� 51 SARAH’S KEY ����������������������������������������������������������� 56 POWER OF HABIT, THE ������������������������������������������� 95 SATURDAY ��������������������������������������������������������������� 56 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ������������������������������������������� 51 SCANDALOUS LIFE, A ��������������������������������������������� 96 PROMISE OF HAPPINESS, THE �������������������������������� 51 SEA, THE...... ���� 56 PROVOCATION ...... ����� 51 SEARCHING FOR CHARMIAN �������������������������������� 96 PURPLE DANDELION...... ����� 95 SEASON OF THE JEW, THE...... ���� 56 PURPLE HEART...... ����� 95 SECOND CHANCES ������������������������������������������������� 56 PURPLE HIBISCUS ��������������������������������������������������� 51 SECRET LIFE OF BEES, THE...... ���� 56 SECRET RIVER, THE �������������������������������������������������� 57 SECRETS OF THE TIDES ������������������������������������������� 57 QUEST FOR ORIGINS, THE...... ����� 95 SENSE OF AN ENDING, THE...... ���� 57 QUIET AMERICAN, THE ������������������������������������������� 51 SEPTEMBERS OF SHIRAZ, THE �������������������������������� 57 SEVEN LIVES OF LADY BARKER, THE...... ���� 96 RAISING WRECKER ������������������������������������������������� 52 SHADES OF GREY ��������������������������������������������������� 57 READER, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 52 SHADOW OF THE WIND, THE �������������������������������� 57 READING IN THE DARK ������������������������������������������ 52 SHAG INCIDENT, THE...... ���� 57 READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN �������������������������������� 95 SHARON AND MY MOTHER-IN-LAW: ...... ���� 96 REBEL WITH A CAUSE...... ����� 96 SHE MAY NOT LEAVE...... ���� 57 RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, THE...... ����� 52 SHELTER...... ���� 58 REMARKABLE CREATURES...... ����� 52 SHORT HISTORY OF A PRINCE, THE...... ���� 58 REMEMBER ME...... ����� 52 SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, A ������� 96 REPORT, THE ����������������������������������������������������������� 52 SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS, A...... ���� 97 RESTLESS ������������������������������������������������������������������ 52 SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTORS IN UKRAINIAN, A ����58 RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER, THE ������������� 53 SHOT...... ���� 58 REUNION, THE �������������������������������������������������������� 52 SHRIMP AND THE ANEMONE, THE ������������������������ 58 REVOLVER...... ���� 53 SIDDHARTHA...... ���� 58

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SILAS MARNER �������������������������������������������������������� 58 STREET WITHOUT A NAME ������������������������������������ 99 SISTER...... ��� 58 STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS ������������������������������ 99 SIX SUSPECTS...... ��� 58 STUART, A LIFE BACKWARDS ���������������������������������� 99 SKATING TO ANTARCTICA �������������������������������������� 97 SUITE FRANÇAISE ���������������������������������������������������� 62 SKIN TO SKIN...... ��� 97 SUM OF OUR DAYS, THE ���������������������������������������� 99 SKYLARK...... ��� 59 SUMMER LIES ���������������������������������������������������������� 62 SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 ��������������������������������������������� 59 SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE, THE ���������������������� 99 SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS ������������������������������������ 97 SWALLOWS OF KABUL, THE ���������������������������������� 62 SLIPSTREAM ������������������������������������������������������������� 97 SYDNEY BRIDGE UPSIDE DOWN...... ���� 63 SLOW JOURNEY SOUTH ���������������������������������������� 97 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE...... ��� 59 SMALL HOLES IN THE SILENCE...... ��� 59 TALKING ABOUT O’DWYER ...... ���� 63 SMALL ISLAND �������������������������������������������������������� 59 TALKING HEADS ����������������������������������������������������� 63 SMELL OF AN OILY RAG, THE...... ��� 97 TELL ME I’M HERE ��������������������������������������������������� 99 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN...... ��� 59 TENDER IS THE NIGHT �������������������������������������������� 63 SNOWLEG ��������������������������������������������������������������� 59 THEORY OF RELATIVITY, THE ��������������������������������� 63 SOLDIER’S WIFE, THE...... ��� 59 THING AROUND YOUR NECK, THE ����������������������� 63 SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, THE...... ��� 60 THINGS FALL APART ����������������������������������������������� 63 SOMETHING FOR THE BIRDS...... ��� 97 THINKS �������������������������������������������������������������������� 63 SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME ������������������������������� 60 THIRTEEN MOONS ������������������������������������������������� 63 SOMETHING LIKE A HOUSE...... ��� 60 THIRTEENTH TALE, THE ������������������������������������������� 63 SON-IN-LAW, THE...... ��� 60 THIS IS HOW ����������������������������������������������������������� 64 SON OF WAR, A ������������������������������������������������������ 60 THOUGHTS AND HAPPENINGS OF WILFRED PRICE, THE �� 64 SONATA FOR MIRIAM...... ��� 60 THOUSAND HILLS TO HEAVEN, A ����������������������� 100 SONG OF ACHILLES, THE...... ��� 60 THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, A...... ���� 64 SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING, THE ���������������� 97 THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS, A ����������� 64 SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING, THE...... ��� 61 THREAD, THE...... ���� 64 SPACE BETWEEN US, THE ��������������������������������������� 61 THREAD OF GRACE, A...... ���� 64 SPARE ROOM, THE...... ��� 61 THREE CUPS OF TEA ��������������������������������������������� 100 SPARK, THE �������������������������������������������������������������� 98 THREE JUNES...... ���� 64 SPARROW, THE �������������������������������������������������������� 61 THREE VIEWS OF CRYSTAL WATER ������������������������� 64 SPILLING THE BEANS ���������������������������������������������� 97 TIGER LADIES, THE ������������������������������������������������ 100 SPIRIT LEVEL, THE ���������������������������������������������������� 98 TIGER’S WIFE, THE ��������������������������������������������������� 64 SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE ����������� 61 TIME TO BE IN EARNEST ��������������������������������������� 100 ST AGNES’ STAND ��������������������������������������������������� 61 TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE, THE ��������������������������������� 65 STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG...... ��� 61 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD �������������������������������������� 65 STASILAND �������������������������������������������������������������� 98 TOAST �������������������������������������������������������������������� 100 STATE OF WONDER ������������������������������������������������ 61 TOBY’S ROOM...... ���� 65 STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND...... ��� 98 TOOTH AND NAIL...... �� 100 STIFF ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 98 TOWARDS ANOTHER SUMMER...... ���� 65 STILL ALICE...... ��� 61 TRAITOR...... ���� 65 STORYTELLER, THE...... ��� 62 TRIAL OF THE CANNIBAL DOG, THE...... �� 100 STORYTELLER: THE LIFE OF ROALD DAHL ������������� 99 TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF LUCAS LESSAR, THE ��65 STORY OF A NEW ZEALAND RIVER, THE...... ��� 62 TRICKING OF FREYA, THE ��������������������������������������� 65 STORY OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL, THE...... ��� 62 TROUBLE WITH FIRE, THE...... ���� 66 STORY OF LUCY GAULT, THE ��������������������������������� 62 TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG ��������������������� 66 STRANGERLAND...... ���� 99 TRUE RED...... �� 100

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TRUE TO BOTH MY SELVES ����������������������������������� 101 WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT ����������������������������������� 69 TRUTH...... ��� 66 WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES ������������������������ 69 TRUTH AND BEAUTY �������������������������������������������� 101 WHEN MADELINE WAS YOUNG ���������������������������� 69 TU ...... ��� 66 WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS ����������������������������������� 69 TULIP FEVER ...... ��� 66 WHERE UNDERPANTS COME FROM...... �� 103 TURN OF THE SCREW, THE ������������������������������������� 66 WHERE WE ONCE BELONGED...... ���� 69 TURNING POINTS ...... � 101 WHITE BOY RUNNING ����������������������������������������� 103 TWELVE LITTLE CAKES, THE ���������������������������������� 101 WHITE CARGO ����������������������������������������������������� 103 TWELVE MINUTES OF LOVE: A TANGO STORY ���� 101 WHITE CHIEF...... �� 103 TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE �������������������� 101 WHITE EARTH, THE ������������������������������������������������� 69 TWO LIVES ������������������������������������������������������������ 101 WHITE TEETH ���������������������������������������������������������� 69 WHITE TIGER, THE...... ���� 69 WHITE WOMAN ON A GREEN BICYCLE, THE �������� 69 UNBROKEN...... � 102 WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL �103 UNDER MY SKIN ��������������������������������������������������� 101 WIDE SARGASSO SEA ��������������������������������������������� 70 UNDER THIS UNBROKEN SKY...... ��� 66 WILD MARY – A LIFE OF MARY WESLEY �������������� 103 UNDERGROUND MAN, THE ���������������������������������� 66 WIND FROM A DISTANT SUMMIT...... �� 103 UNFEELING ������������������������������������������������������������� 66 WINTER IN MADRID ����������������������������������������������� 70 UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS, THE ������������������ 67 WINTER IN THE SUMMER GARDEN ...... ���� 70 UNLESS �������������������������������������������������������������������� 67 WISH YOU WERE HERE...... ���� 70 UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ������ 67 WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS ����������������������������������� 70 UP FROM THE BLUE ������������������������������������������������ 67 WITNESS THE NIGHT...... ���� 70 WOLF HALL ������������������������������������������������������������� 70 WOMAN UNKNOWN, A ������������������������������������� 103 VARIOUS PETS ALIVE AND DEAD ��������������������������� 67 WORLD BENEATH, THE ������������������������������������������ 70 VERNON GOD LITTLE...... ��� 67 WORLD’S STRONGEST LIBRARIAN, THE �������������� 104 VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, A ������������������������������� 67 WORST HARD TIME, THE �������������������������������������� 104 VINTNER’S LUCK, THE...... ��� 68 WUTHERING HEIGHTS ������������������������������������������� 70 VIOLIN LESSONS...... � 102 VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, A...... ��� 68 VISITATION, THE...... ��� 68 YACOUBIAN BUILDING, THE...... ���� 71 YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE...... �� 104 YELLOW BIRDS, THE ����������������������������������������������� 71 WAITING ����������������������������������������������������������������� 68 YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY ���������������������� 71 WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS ��������������������������� 68 WALKING IN THE SHADE ������������������������������������ 102 WALLED GARDEN, THE ...... ��� 68 Z: A NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD ���������������������� 71 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS ����������������������������������������� 68 ZEITOUN...... �� 104 WATER THIEVES, THE...... � 102 ZEN UNDER FIRE...... �� 104 WAVE OF DESTRUCTION ������������������������������������� 102 ZOLI...... ���� 71 WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN �������������������������� 68 WE WERE THE MULVANEYS ������������������������������������ 68 WE WILL NOT CEASE...... � 102 WHAT IS THE WHAT ����������������������������������������������� 68 WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T RUN ���������������������� 103

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Abdolah, Kader 431pp 2005 ��������������������������������������30 Bainbridge, Beryl 224pp 2001 ��������������������������������������5 Abdullah II of Jordan, King 324pp 2011 ��������������������94 Bakopoulos, Dean 220pp 2005...... �����50 Abuelaish, Izzeldin 234pp 2011 ���������������������������������85 Ballantyne, David 277pp 1968 �����������������������������������63 Abulhawa, Susan 331pp 2010 ������������������������������������43 Ballantyne, Jackie 302pp 2007 �����������������������������������31 Achebe, Chinua 187pp 1958 ��������������������������������������63 Banville, John 264pp 2005 �����������������������������������������56 Adams, Poppy 305pp 2008 ������������������������������������������9 Barbery, Muriel 271pp 2010 ��������������������������������������20 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 218pp 2009 �����������������63 Barker, Lady 238pp 1883 �������������������������������������������98 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 477pp 2013 ��������������������6 Barker, Pat 264pp 2012 ����������������������������������������������65 Adichie, Chimamandi Ngozi 307pp 2003 ������������������51 Barker, Pat 281pp 2001 ����������������������������������������������11 Adichie, Chimamandi Ngozi 433pp 2006 ������������������27 Barnes, Julian 150pp 2011 �����������������������������������������57 Adie, Kate 438pp 2002 �����������������������������������������������87 Barnes, Julian 505pp 2005 �������������������������������������������7 Adiga, Aravind 321pp 2008 ����������������������������������������69 Barnett. Kristine 250pp 2013 ��������������������������������������98 Agassi, Andre 386pp 2009 �����������������������������������������94 Barry, Sebastian 256pp 2012 ��������������������������������������46 Alda, Alan 224pp 2005 ����������������������������������������������93 Barry, Sebastian 304pp 2005 ��������������������������������������38 Ali, Ayaan Hirsi 353pp 2007 ��������������������������������������86 Bartok, Mira 301pp 2011 �������������������������������������������91 Ali, Monica 492pp 2003 ��������������������������������������������12 Basu, Kunal 313pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������47 Ali, Nujood (with Delphine Minoui) 188pp 2010 �������84 Baxter, Archibald 189pp 1939 ����������������������������������102 Allende, Isabel 301pp 2008 ����������������������������������������99 Bayley, John 294pp 1998 ��������������������������������������������86 Allende, Isabel 330pp 1994 ����������������������������������������95 Beah, Ishmael 229pp 2007 �����������������������������������������90 Allende, Isabel 399pp 1999 ����������������������������������������17 Beer, Edith Hahn 305pp 2001 ������������������������������������93 Allen, Stewart Lee 231pp 2000 �����������������������������������79 Benaron, Naomi 360pp 2011 �������������������������������������55 Allison, Peter 239pp 2007 ����������������������������������������103 Bennett, Alan 199pp 2002 ������������������������������������������37 Amirrezvani, Anita 457pp 2007 ����������������������������������11 Bennett, Alan 242pp 2009 �����������������������������������������89 Amiry, Suad 194pp 2005 ��������������������������������������������96 Bennett, Alan 266pp 2007 ������������������������������������������63 Amis, Martin 400pp 2001 �������������������������������������������80 Bennett, Joe 258pp 2008 ������������������������������������������103 Anam, Tahmima 317pp 2007 �������������������������������������26 Berendt, John 373pp 2005 ������������������������������������������77 Angelou, Maya 281pp 1969 ���������������������������������������85 Berendt, John 388pp 1995 ������������������������������������������91 Ansley, Bruce 213pp 2008 �����������������������������������������90 Berne, Suzanne 248pp 1998 ��������������������������������������16 Aplin, Jeanette 228pp 2001 ����������������������������������������89 Biggs, Barbara 346pp 2003 ����������������������������������������85 Archie, Carol 279pp 2005 �����������������������������������������97 Birkhead, Tim 224pp 2012 �����������������������������������������75 Armstrong, Karen 192pp 2000 ������������������������������������86 Blaker, Lisa French 348pp 2007 ����������������������������������83 Aslam, Nadeem 369pp 2004 ��������������������������������������41 Bodanis, David 330pp 2000 ���������������������������������������79 Aswany, Alaa Al 255pp 2004 ��������������������������������������71 Bohan, Edmund 231pp 2000 ��������������������������������������41 Atkinson, Coral 312pp 2006 ���������������������������������������49 Boo, Katherine 256pp 2012 ����������������������������������������74 Atkinson, Kate 350pp 2010 ����������������������������������������61 Booth, Martin 250pp 1998 �����������������������������������������33 Atkinson, Kate 352pp 2013 ���������������������������������������37 Booth, Martin 288pp 2005 �����������������������������������������67 Atkinson, Kate 382pp 1995 ������������������������������������������9 Boyd, William 325pp 2006 ����������������������������������������52 Atkinson, Kate 410pp 2004...... �����13 Boyne, John 309pp 2011 ����������������������������������������������5 Atwood, Margaret 324pp 1987 �����������������������������������27 Bragg, Melvyn 426pp 2001 ����������������������������������������60 Atwood, Margaret 436pp 2003 �����������������������������������47 Brauen, Yangzom 336pp 2011 �����������������������������������72 Atwood, Margaret 637pp 2001 �����������������������������������10 Brennan, Lani with Hazel Flynn 281pp 2013 �������������88 Austen, Jane 327pp 1813 �������������������������������������������51 Brennert, Alan 384pp 2003 ����������������������������������������43 Austen, Jane 432pp 1816 �������������������������������������������21 Brierley, Saroo 256pp 2013 ����������������������������������������90 Auster, Paul 207pp 2004 ���������������������������������������������47 Brontë, Charlotte 560pp 1847 ������������������������������������34 Avery, Ray 268pp 2010 ����������������������������������������������96 Brontë, Emily 373pp 1847 ������������������������������������������70 Aw, Tash 362pp 2005 �������������������������������������������������28 Brookmyre, Christopher 410pp 2002 ��������������������������55 Ayres, Pam 404pp 2011 ���������������������������������������������93 Brooks, Geraldine 255pp 1994 �����������������������������������93 Brooks, Geraldine 318pp 2011 �����������������������������������12 Bailey, Elisabeth Tova 183pp 2010 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Name Page Name Page Brown, Rachel Manija 323pp 2005 ����������������������������72 Daffey, Chris 256pp 2002 �������������������������������������������82 Bryson, Bill 269pp 1990 ���������������������������������������������92 Daisley, Stephen 295pp 2010 �������������������������������������65 Bryson, Bill 352pp 1995 ���������������������������������������������93 Dalai Lama, His Holiness the 188pp 2011 �����������������74 Bryson, Bill 389pp 2000 ���������������������������������������������79 Dalrymple, William 284pp 2009 ��������������������������������93 Bryson, Bill 627pp 2003 ���������������������������������������������96 Dalrymple, William 454pp 1998 ��������������������������������82 Bryson, Bill 700pp 2010...... �����73 Dangarembga, Tsitsi 204pp 1988 �������������������������������45 Buck, Pearl S 357pp 1931 ������������������������������������������26 Davenport, Will 410pp 2003 ��������������������������������������48 Bugan, Carmen 224pp 2012 ���������������������������������������76 Dawson, George 285pp 2000 ������������������������������������88 Burgess, Anthony 144pp 1962 ������������������������������������14 Day, Marele 263pp 1997 ��������������������������������������������36 Day, Marele 368pp 2002 ��������������������������������������������44 Cadwalladr, Carole 476pp 2005 ���������������������������������22 Dean, Debra 229pp 2006 �������������������������������������������40 Caldwell, Bo 287pp 2010 �������������������������������������������14 Deane, Seamus 233pp 1996 ���������������������������������������52 Camus, Albert 272pp 1947 �����������������������������������������50 Deavoll, Pat 264pp 2011 ������������������������������������������103 Capote, Truman 157pp 1958 ��������������������������������������12 De Bernières, Louis 436pp 1994 ��������������������������������13 Carey, Edward 214pp 2004 ������������������������������������������6 De Botton, Alain 261pp 2002 �������������������������������������73 Carey, Peter 401pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������66 De Goldi, Kate 251pp 2008 �����������������������������������������5 Carhart, TE 242pp 2000 ����������������������������������������������95 De Kretser, Michelle 369pp 2003 �������������������������������27 Carrière, Jean-Claude 185pp 2007 �����������������������������50 Delaney, Frank 480pp 2004 ���������������������������������������34 Carroll, Lewis 253pp 1865 �������������������������������������������5 De Robertis, Carolina 276pp 2012 �����������������������������50 Cartwright, Justin 306pp 2004 ������������������������������������51 De Robertis, Carolina 424pp 2009 �����������������������������34 Cash, Wiley 335pp 2012 ��������������������������������������������36 De Rosnay, Tatiana 294pp 2008 ���������������������������������56 Catley, Christine Cole 445pp 2006 �����������������������������76 Dery, Dominika 349pp 2006 ������������������������������������101 Catton, Eleanor 832pp 2013 ��������������������������������������39 Desai, Anita 228pp 1999 ��������������������������������������������22 Chabon, Michael 639pp 2000 ��������������������������������������6 Desai, Kishwar 242pp 2010 ���������������������������������������70 Challinor, Deborah 304pp 2009 ���������������������������������82 Dessaix, Robert 276pp 1996 ��������������������������������������45 Chetwynd, Jane 182pp 2004 �������������������������������������77 Deveson, Anne 268pp 1991 ���������������������������������������99 Chevalier, Tracy 248pp 1999 ��������������������������������������25 De Waal, Edmund 351pp 2011 ����������������������������������83 Chevalier, Tracy 352pp 2009 ��������������������������������������52 Dickens, Charles 414pp 1838 ������������������������������������46 Chick, Suzanne 365pp 1995 ��������������������������������������96 Didion, Joan 227pp 2006 �����������������������������������������104 Child, Julia 352pp 2006 ��������������������������������������������92 Diffenbaugh, Vanessa 308pp 2010 �����������������������������36 Cleave, Chris 374pp 2008 ������������������������������������������46 Dilloway, Margaret 331pp 2010 ���������������������������������30 Cleave, Paul 427pp 2006 ��������������������������������������������14 Diski, Jenny 250pp 1997 ��������������������������������������������97 Clendinnen, Inga 230pp 2006 ������������������������������������72 Doidge, Norman MD 421pp 2007 �����������������������������76 Coetzee, JM 156pp 1980 ��������������������������������������������68 Donoghue, Emma 401pp 2010 �����������������������������������54 Coetzee, JM 220pp 1999 ��������������������������������������������20 Cohen, David 288pp 2011 �����������������������������������������89 Dooley, Sean 322pp 2005 ������������������������������������������75 Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 223pp 1900 ����������������������14 Drabble, Margaret 392pp 2000 ����������������������������������49 Collins, Suzanne 454pp 2008 �������������������������������������31 Drysdale, Helena 395pp 2006 ������������������������������������99 Conrad, Joseph 343pp 1902 ���������������������������������������28 Dubois, Jennifer 369pp 2012 ��������������������������������������48 Constant, Paula 300pp 2008 ��������������������������������������97 Dubus, André III 365pp 2000 �������������������������������������30 Coplin, Amanda 426pp 2012 �������������������������������������47 Duder, Tessa 368pp 2008 �������������������������������������������34 Corbalis, Judy 261pp 2007 �����������������������������������������43 Duhigg, Charles 371pp 2012 ��������������������������������������95 Cotterill, Colin 270pp 2011 ����������������������������������������35 Duncker, Patricia 244pp 2007 ������������������������������������42 Cotterill, Colin 287pp 2004 ����������������������������������������16 Duncker, Patricia 375pp 1999 ������������������������������������34 Cowley, Joy 202pp 2010 ��������������������������������������������93 Dunne, Catherine 309pp 2000 �����������������������������������68 Cox, Nigel 207pp 2006 ����������������������������������������������16 Durrow, Heidi W 264pp 2010 ������������������������������������24 Craven, Margaret 168pp 1967 ������������������������������������32 Crompton, Richard 309pp 2013 ���������������������������������29 Ebadi, Shirin 232pp 2006 �������������������������������������������86 Cross, Ian 181pp 1957 �����������������������������������������������25 Echols, Damien 416pp 2012 ��������������������������������������88 Cunningham, Laura S 240pp 2000 �����������������������������97 Edwards, Kim 401pp 2005 �����������������������������������������42 Cunxin, Li 368pp 2003 �����������������������������������������������91 Egan, Jennifer 351pp 2010 �����������������������������������������68

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Egan, Timothy 340pp 2006 ���������������������������������������104 Flynn, Gillian 466pp 2012 �����������������������������������������26 Eggers, Dave 335pp 2009 �����������������������������������������104 Foer, Jonathan Safran 326pp 2006 ������������������������������21 Eggers, Dave 350pp 2002 �������������������������������������������71 Forna, Aminatta 293pp 2013 ��������������������������������������29 Eggers, Dave 475pp 2006 �������������������������������������������68 Forster, EM 256pp 1908 �����������������������������������������54 Ehrenreich, Barbara 240pp 2002 ��������������������������������93 Forster, EM 317pp 1924 ����������������������������������������������48 Eidson, Thomas 201pp 1994 ���������������������������������������61 Forster, Margaret 307pp 1995 �������������������������������������84 Eldred-Grigg, Stevan 261pp 1987 �������������������������������47 Forster, Margaret 343pp 2002 �������������������������������������82 Eliot, George 190pp 1861 ������������������������������������������58 Forster, Margaret 403pp 2003 �������������������������������������19 Eliot, George 896pp 1872 ������������������������������������������42 Fowler, Karen Joy 288pp 2004 ������������������������������������34 Elliott, Marianne 279pp 2012 �����������������������������������104 Fowler, Therese Anne 375pp 2013 ������������������������������71 Endicott, Marina 437pp 2008 �������������������������������������26 Fowles, John 399pp 1969 �������������������������������������������23 Enger, Leif 311pp 2001 �����������������������������������������������49 Frame, Janet 173pp 1961 ��������������������������������������������48 Enright, Anne 260pp 2007 ������������������������������������������24 Frame, Janet 195pp 1984 ��������������������������������������������86 Erdrich, Louise 277pp 2005 ����������������������������������������48 Frame, Janet 206pp 2007 ��������������������������������������������65 Erdrich, Louise 338pp 2012 ����������������������������������������54 Frame, Janet 240pp 1979 ��������������������������������������������38 Erdrich, Louise 388pp 2003 ����������������������������������������41 Franklin, Tom 274pp 2010 ������������������������������������������17 Eugenides, Jeffrey 529pp 2002 �����������������������������������42 Frankl, Viktor E 221pp 1984 ���������������������������������������91 Evans, Diana 230pp 2005 ��������������������������������������������5 Franzen, Jonathan 653pp 2001 �����������������������������������16 Extence, Gavin 408pp 2013 ���������������������������������������67 Fraser, Eugenie 336pp 1984 ����������������������������������������84 Frazier, Charles 259pp 2011 ���������������������������������������45 Fahey, Jacqueline 208pp 2006 ������������������������������������97 Frazier, Charles 422pp 2006 ���������������������������������������63 Farmaian, Sattareh 534pp 1992 ����������������������������������78 Frazier, Charles 436pp 1997 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Grenville, Kate 401pp 2001 ���������������������������������������32 Irving, John 731pp 1985 ���������������������������������������������14 Grimshaw, Charlotte 282pp 1999 �������������������������������51 Isaac, Tuhoe ‘Bruno’ 166pp 2007 �����������������������������100 Grimshaw, Charlotte 286pp 2007 �������������������������������47 Ishiguro, Kazuo 282pp 2005 ��������������������������������������45 Gruen, Sara 335pp 2006 ��������������������������������������������68 Ishiguro, Kazuo 368pp 2000 ��������������������������������������69 Gunn, Kirsty 256pp 2002 �������������������������������������������22 Iyer, Pico 234pp 1995 ������������������������������������������������17 Gurnah, Abdulrazak 245pp 2001 �������������������������������12 Jackson, Mick 266pp 1997 �����������������������������������������66 Haddon, Mark 272pp 2003 ����������������������������������������17 James, Henry 296pp 1898 ������������������������������������������66 Hager, Thomas 340pp 2006 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McCauley, Sue 240pp 1996 ���������������������������������������80 Oates, Joyce Carol 272pp 2006 ����������������������������������10 McCutcheon, Sandy 324pp 2006 �������������������������������90 Oates, Joyce Carol 453pp 2001 ����������������������������������68 McDermid, Val 543pp 2006 ���������������������������������������26 Obama, Barack 480pp 2004 ��������������������������������������79 McEwan, Ian 166pp 2007 ������������������������������������������46 Obreht, Téa 352pp 2011 ��������������������������������������������64 McEwan, Ian 243pp 1997 ������������������������������������������21 Odell, Jonathan 340pp 2012 ��������������������������������������28 McEwan, Ian 304pp 2006 ������������������������������������������56 O’Donnel, Lisa 294pp 2012 ���������������������������������������18 McEwan, Ian 372pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������7 O’Farrell, Maggie 374pp 2010 ������������������������������������27 McFadden, Bernice L 252pp 2012 ������������������������������24 Ogawa, Yoko 180pp 2010 ������������������������������������������30 McGahan, Andrew 376pp 2004 ���������������������������������69 O’Loughlin, Ed 175pp 2009 ���������������������������������������46 McGee, Greg 352pp 2012 ������������������������������������������39 Olsson, Linda 216pp 2011 �����������������������������������������35 McGregor, Jon 288pp 2003 ����������������������������������������32 Olsson, Linda 267pp 2005 ����������������������������������������37 Olsson, Linda 272pp 2008 �����������������������������������������60 McKay, Ami 368pp 2006 ��������������������������������������������10 Omar, Qais Akbar 389pp 2013 �����������������������������������81 McLain, Paula 392pp 2010 �����������������������������������������48 Ondaatje, Michael 207pp 1983 ����������������������������������96 McMahon, Katharine 457pp 2009 ������������������������������16 Ondaatje, Michael 311pp 2000 ������������������������������������7 McNeish, James 472pp 2003 ��������������������������������������78 Orange, Claudia 345pp 2004 �������������������������������������85 Melville, Herman 480pp 1851 �����������������������������������43 O’Regan, Pauline 216pp 2004 ������������������������������������91 Michaels, Anne 294pp 1997 ���������������������������������������23 Orwell, George 118pp 1945 ����������������������������������������7 Miller, Alex 406pp 2001 ���������������������������������������������15 Osborne, Frances 400pp 2004 �����������������������������������89 Miller, Madeline 352pp 2012 �������������������������������������60 Oshinsky, David M 342pp 2005 ���������������������������������95 Mistry, Rohinton 500pp 2002 �������������������������������������22 Ozeki, Ruth L 431pp 1998 �����������������������������������������44 Mistry, Rohinton 752pp 1996 �������������������������������������22 Mitchard, Jacquelyn 395pp 2009 �������������������������������63 Packer, ZZ 240pp 2003 ����������������������������������������������20 Mitchell, David 371pp 2006 ��������������������������������������10 Park, Ruth 294pp 1992 �����������������������������������������������80 Mitchell, Shandi 416pp 2009 �������������������������������������66 Parrado, Nando 274pp 2006 ��������������������������������������92 Mitford, Nancy 437pp 1949 ���������������������������������������39 Patchett, Ann 257pp 2004 ����������������������������������������101 Moggach, Deborah 259pp 1999 ���������������������������������66 Patchett, Ann 295pp 2007 ������������������������������������������55 Monk Kidd, Sue 374pp 2001 ��������������������������������������56 Patchett, Ann 318pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������9 Moon, Paul 264pp 2013 �������������������������������������������101 Patchett, Anna 353pp 2011 ����������������������������������������61 Moore, Liz 352pp 2012 ����������������������������������������������28 Pattrick, Jenny 313pp 2010 �����������������������������������������33 Morrison, Toni 202pp 2003 ����������������������������������������39 Pattrick, Jenny 316pp 2008 �����������������������������������������36 Morrison, Toni 275pp 1987 ������������������������������������������9 Pattrick, Jenny 325pp 2012 �����������������������������������������59 Morris, Paula 253pp 2005 ������������������������������������������29 Pattrick, Jenny 367pp 2003 �����������������������������������������19 Mortenson, Greg & Relin, David Oliver 349pp 2008 ��100 Paul Read, Piers 294pp 2010 �������������������������������������42 Moyes, Jojo 503pp 2012 ��������������������������������������������41 Pears, Tim 281pp 1993 �����������������������������������������������33 Müller, Herta 214pp 1997 ��������������������������������������������7 Perkins, Emily 340pp 2012 �����������������������������������������23 Munro, Alice 340pp 1998 ������������������������������������������39 Perkins, Mandaley 323pp 2005 ����������������������������������83 Peters, Ellis 1984 189pp ��������������������������������������������18 Murdoch, Iris 416pp 1973 ������������������������������������������10 Phan, Zoya 352pp 2009 ���������������������������������������������89 Murphy, Dervla 264pp 1976 ��������������������������������������94 Phillips, Caryl 312pp 2003 �����������������������������������������20 Picoult, Jodi 423pp 2004 ��������������������������������������������44 Nabokov, Vladimir 312pp 1955 ����������������������������������38 Picoult, Jodi 460pp 2013 ��������������������������������������������62 Nafisi, Azar 368pp 2003 ��������������������������������������������95 Pierre, DBC 288pp 2003 ��������������������������������������������67 Neale, Matthew 462pp 2000 ��������������������������������������21 Pilgrim, Ruri 316pp 1999 �������������������������������������������22 Némirovsky, Irène 402pp 2006 �����������������������������������62 Plath, Sylvia 250pp 1963 ����������������������������������������������9 Nicholson, John 256pp 2006 ������������������������������������103 Potok, Chaim 280pp 1967 ������������������������������������������14 Nicolson, Nigel 269pp 1973 ��������������������������������������95 Potok, Chaim 438pp 1985 ������������������������������������������18 Niffenegger, Audrey 390pp 2009 ��������������������������������28 Pouncey, Peter 208pp 2006 ����������������������������������������55 Niffenegger, Audrey 518pp 2004 ��������������������������������65 Pountney, Charmaine 313pp 2000 �����������������������������88 Norman, Charity 355pp 2010 �������������������������������������23 Powell, Jim 342pp 2010 �������������������������������������������������12 Norman, Charity 374pp 2012 �������������������������������������60 Powers, Kevin 226pp 2012 ����������������������������������������71 Norman, Charity 396pp 2012 �������������������������������������56 Prejean, Helen 347pp 1994 ����������������������������������������78 Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia 343pp 2009 ������������������������31 Proulx, E Annie 339pp 1992 ���������������������������������������51

120 BDS Catalogue 2015 Book Titles A - Z

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Quigley, Sarah 250pp 2003 ����������������������������������������58 Sendker, Jan-Philipp 325pp 2002 ���������������������������������7 Quigley, Sarah 300pp 2011 ����������������������������������������15 Seth, Vikram 485pp 1999 �������������������������������������������21 Quindlen, Anna 299pp 2011 ��������������������������������������21 Seth, Vikram 503pp 2005 �����������������������������������������101 Quin, Mary 282pp 2004 ���������������������������������������������87 Setterfield, Diane 408pp 2006 ������������������������������������63 Shadbolt, Maurice 489pp 1986 ����������������������������������56 Rachman, Tom 274pp 2010 ����������������������������������������32 Shaffer, Mary Ann 256pp 2008 �����������������������������������27 Randall, Charlotte 254pp 2000 �����������������������������������17 Shakespeare, Nicholas 387pp 2005 ����������������������������59 Randall, Charlotte 272pp 2012 �����������������������������������29 Sheldrick, Daphne 334pp 2012 ����������������������������������72 Rash, Ron 255pp 2012 �����������������������������������������������16 Shepard, Deborah 328pp 2009 ����������������������������������83 Ratner, Vaddey 322pp 2012 ����������������������������������������32 Shepard, Sadia 364pp 2008 ����������������������������������������81 Reid, Atka & Schofield, Hana 339pp 2011 �����������������82 Shepherd, Lynn 343pp 2010 ���������������������������������������44 Reidy, Sue 269pp 1996 �����������������������������������������������68 Shields, Carol 213pp 2002 �����������������������������������������67 Remarque, Eric Maria 192pp 1919 �������������������������������6 Shields, Carol 339pp 997 ������������������������������������������36 Renault, Mary 384pp 1956 �����������������������������������������36 Shriver, Lionel 373pp 2013 ������������������������������������������9 Rhys, Jean 151pp 1966 �����������������������������������������������70 Shriver, Lionel 468pp 2003 ����������������������������������������68 Richell, Hannah 391pp 2012 �������������������������������������57 Sijie, Dai 172pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������������8 Richman, Alyson 358pp 2011 ������������������������������������38 Simmonds, Cherry 432pp 2006 ����������������������������������97 Riddell, Michael 367pp 1997 �������������������������������������33 Simon, Rachel 296pp 2002 ����������������������������������������96 Roach, Mary 303pp 2004 �������������������������������������������98 Simon, Rachel 340pp 2011 ����������������������������������������62 Robertson, Deborah 293pp 2006 �������������������������������13 Simonson, Helen 457pp 2010 ������������������������������������40 Robinson, Marilynne 282pp 2004 ������������������������������24 Simsion, Graeme 295pp 2013 �����������������������������������54 Roffey, Monique 439pp 2009 �������������������������������������69 Skloot, Rebecca 369pp 2010 ��������������������������������������85 Rogan, Charlotte 275pp 2012 ������������������������������������37 Slater, Nigel 247pp 2004 ������������������������������������������100 Rogers, Douglas 378pp 2009 �������������������������������������87 Smith, Sid 227pp 2001 �����������������������������������������������60 Rosenheim, Andrew 339pp 2006 �������������������������������35 Smith, Zadie 419pp 2002 ���������������������������������������������8 Roy, Arundhati 340pp 1997 ����������������������������������������26 Smith, Zadie 446pp 2005 �������������������������������������������46 Rulfo, Juan 124pp 1995 ����������������������������������������������49 Smith, Zadie 462pp 2000 �������������������������������������������69 Sobel, Dava 420pp 1999 ��������������������������������������������82 Rusbridge, Jane 306pp 2009 ���������������������������������������19 Sofer, Dalia 338pp 2007 ���������������������������������������������57 Rusesabagina, Paul 264pp 2006 ���������������������������������94 Sole, Robert 320pp 2000 ��������������������������������������������50 Russell, Mary Doria 430pp 2005 ��������������������������������64 Solomons, Natasha 311pp 2010 ���������������������������������44 Russell, Mary Doria 502pp 1997 ��������������������������������61 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 143pp 1963 ��������������������������46 Rutherfurd, Edward 1299pp 1998 �������������������������������38 Soueif, Ahdaf 529pp 1999 ������������������������������������������41 Ruxin, Josh 308pp 2013 �������������������������������������������100 Starling, Belinda 452pp 2007 �������������������������������������34 St Aubin de Terán, Lisa 512pp 2005 ����������������������������94 Sage, Lorna 287pp 2001 ���������������������������������������������74 Stead, CK 219pp 1999 ������������������������������������������������63 Salinger, JD 220pp 1951 ���������������������������������������������13 Stead, CK 244pp 2006 ������������������������������������������������44 Salmond, Anne 491pp 2003 �������������������������������������100 Stead, CK 245pp 2004 ������������������������������������������������41 Sansom, CJ 548pp 2006 ���������������������������������������������70 Stead, C K 267pp 2012 �����������������������������������������������53 Saramago, José 294pp 2003 ���������������������������������������13 Stedman, ML 343pp 2012 �����������������������������������������37 Sa, Shan 280pp 2003 �������������������������������������������������25 Stegner, Wallace 327pp 1987 �������������������������������������17 Scheeres, Julia 404pp 2006 ����������������������������������������73 Steinbeck, John 148pp 1945 ���������������������������������������13 Schlink, Bernhard 216pp 1997 �����������������������������������52 Steinbeck, John 416pp 1939 ���������������������������������������26 Schlink, Bernhard 240pp 2013 �����������������������������������62 Stockett, Kathryn 451pp 2009 ������������������������������������28 Schwalbe, Will 336pp 2012 ���������������������������������������80 Sturrock, Donald 655pp 2010 ������������������������������������99 Scott, Dick 216pp 1975 ����������������������������������������������73 Sultana, Farida 245pp 2011 ����������������������������������������95 Scott, Robyn 445pp 2008 �����������������������������������������101 Sunley, Christina 370pp 2009 �������������������������������������65 Sebald, WG 415pp 2001 ����������������������������������������������8 Suri, Manil 329pp 2001 ����������������������������������������������18 Sedgwick, Marcus 220pp 2009 ����������������������������������53 Suzuki, David 210pp 1998 �����������������������������������������78 See, Lisa 340pp 2007 �������������������������������������������������59 Swarup, Vikas 318pp 2005 �����������������������������������������59 Seierstad, Asne 276pp 2003 ���������������������������������������75 Swarup, Vikas 575pp 2008 �����������������������������������������58 Seiffert, Rachel 391pp 2001 ��������������������������������������17 Swift, Graham 336pp 2010 ����������������������������������������70 Seliy, Shauna 259pp 2007 ������������������������������������������65 Swift, Jonathan 320pp 1726 ���������������������������������������27

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Tammet, Daniel 242pp 2006 ��������������������������������������76 Urrea, Luis Alberto 338pp 2009 ���������������������������������33 Tan, Amy 287pp 1989 ������������������������������������������������35 Tan, Amy 339pp 2001 ������������������������������������������������11 Vanderbes, Jennifer 431pp 2004 ���������������������������������20 Tan, Amy 398pp 2003 ������������������������������������������������94 Van Der Vlugt, Simone 295pp 2008 ���������������������������52 Tan, Twan Eng 348pp 2012 �����������������������������������������24 Van Geldermalsen, Marguerite 279pp 2006 ���������������91 Tartt, Donna 555pp 2003 �������������������������������������������38 Verghese, Abraham 541pp 2009 ��������������������������������17 Tawhai, Alice 162pp 2007 ������������������������������������������40 Vickers, Salley 342pp 2000 ����������������������������������������42 Taylor, Chad 176pp 2006 �������������������������������������������19 Vonnegut, Kurt 143pp 1970 ���������������������������������������59 Taylor, Jill Bolte 183pp 2006 ��������������������������������������92 Tearne, Roma 338pp 2012 �����������������������������������������53 Walker, Alice 294pp 1982 ������������������������������������������15 Tearne, Roma 409pp 2009 �����������������������������������������12 Walker, Peter 342pp 2001 ������������������������������������������81 Temple, Peter 387pp 2009 ������������������������������������������66 Walls, Jeanette 341pp 2005 ����������������������������������������82 Templeton, Natasha 320pp 1999 ��������������������������������70 Watson, Larry 175pp 1995 �����������������������������������������43 Teo, Hsu-Ming 300pp 2000 ����������������������������������������39 Watson, SJ 368pp 2011 ������������������������������������������������8 Tessaro, Kathleen 456pp 2013 ������������������������������������49 Watson, Tom & Hickman, Martin 339pp 2012 ������������79 Tharoor, Shashi 498pp 2007 ���������������������������������������79 Weisgarbeer, Ann 307pp 2008 �����������������������������������50 Theroux, Paul 323pp 2012 �����������������������������������������39 Weldon, Fay 284pp 2005 �������������������������������������������57 Theroux, Paul 353pp 2013 �����������������������������������������88 Weldon, Fay 366pp 2002 �������������������������������������������73 Thompson, Damian 279pp 2012 ��������������������������������80 Wells, Peter 315pp 2001 ��������������������������������������������89 Thorp, John 183pp 2006 ���������������������������������������������77 Wells, Peter 478pp 2007 ��������������������������������������������40 Thubron, Colin 278pp 1999 ���������������������������������������85 Wendt, Albert 390pp 1999 �������������������������������������������5 Tizard, Cath 350pp 2010 ��������������������������������������������76 Wendt, Albert 463pp 2003 �����������������������������������������40 Todd, Penelope 299pp 2010 ���������������������������������������34 Wharton, Edith 229pp 1920 �����������������������������������������5 Tóibín, Colm 245pp 1993 ������������������������������������������28 Wharton, Edith 338pp 1905 ���������������������������������������30 Tóibín, Colm 273pp 1999 ������������������������������������������10 Whitehead, Anne 312pp 2004 ����������������������������������75 Tóibín, Colm 359pp 2004 ������������������������������������������41 Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate 375pp 2010 ���������98 Tolkien, JRR 318pp 1954 ��������������������������������������������29 Williams, Mary 300pp 2013 ���������������������������������������90 Tolstoy, Leo 853pp 1877 ����������������������������������������������7 Winchester, Simon 207pp 1998 ����������������������������������99 Tomalin, Claire 345pp 1998 ���������������������������������������86 Winchester, Simon 317pp 2008 ����������������������������������75 Winchester, Simon 338pp 2001 ����������������������������������91 Tomalin, Claire 499pp 2003 ���������������������������������������96 Winman, Sarah 324pp 2011 ���������������������������������������69 Torday, Paul 330pp 2007 ��������������������������������������������56 Winterson, Jeanette 230pp 2012 ������������������������������103 Towles, Amor 392pp 2011 �����������������������������������������55 Winton, Tim 377pp 1994 ��������������������������������������������53 Tremain, Rose 365pp 2007 �����������������������������������������54 Wolff, Tobias 195pp 2004 ������������������������������������������46 Tremain, Rose 366pp 2003 �����������������������������������������15 Wong, Alison 278pp 2009 ��������������������������������������������7 Tremain, Rose 454pp 1999 �����������������������������������������44 Wood, John Colman 261pp 2012 �������������������������������45 Trevor, William 214pp 1998 ���������������������������������������18 Wood, Patricia 310pp 2007 ����������������������������������������38 Trevor, William 228pp 2003 ���������������������������������������62 Wood, Summer 290pp 2011 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122 BDS Catalogue 2015 Membership costs

The cost of joining the Book Discussion Scheme depends on the number of people in your book group and the type of programme you join. On average it’s $60 for 10 titles. Delivery of books to your group is included in the above fee. Return postage is the responsibility of groups but we sell subsidised courier bags. For more information about methods of payment, buying courier bags, and the one-off registration cost, refer to our website www.bds.org.nz (‘Get Involved’ section, ‘What’s the cost?’). The BNZ account number is: FWEA Book Discussion Scheme 02 0800 0726088 000.

Programme Type No. of people in book group Membership fee Full programme 7 to 10 members $60 per member (convenor pays $30) (a book every month; 10 books total) 6 or fewer Group fee of $390 (divide between members) Half programme 7 to 10 members $45 per member (convenor pays $25) (a book every 2 months; 5 books total) 6 or fewer Group fee of $295 (divide between members) Student programme 7 to 10 members $30 per member (convenor pays $20) (a book every month; 5 books total) 6 or fewer Total fee of $200 (divide between members)

Social Agenda We promote literacy and a love of books within sectors of the community traditionally under-represented within book groups. The BDS Committee (our board) has agreed to subsidise initiatives that achieve our social agenda. If you know of, or are involved in, an agency that would like to explore opportunities to work with us, please get in touch.

BDS is a member of the Federation of Workers’ Educational Associations. Our aims are to promote reading and encourage individuals to get together to discuss books.

Our book groups are designed to: • broaden minds through reading and discussion • strengthen communities by meeting community learning needs • encourage a sense of community and social cohesion • provide pleasure of reading and lifelong learning • encourage critical thinking • create awareness of social issues and cultural diversity • work towards a just and equitable society …and, of course, be fun! PO Box 7126 440 Colombo Street Christchurch 8240

Phone 03 365 6210 Fax 03 365 6054 Email [email protected] www.bds.org.nz